skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I see. To be fair, I signed up and paid $20 for a membership many years ago; it's a one-time fee to never have to worry about saving receipts, which is a massive win for me since I shop there so often, and to get the dividend which inevitably amounts to far more than the one-time $20 charge.

So, to be fair, I don't recall being pushed, since it made sense to me, and they wouldn't push me now because I'm already a member.
The same thing that happens when PagerDuty's AWS availability zone goes down or loses connectivity. Exactly like it did in June. PagerDuty is not magical.
Berkeley ACM Turing Laureate Colloquium
Simple: A cartel increases profits, a union doesn't. :(
If you click the green onion next to the site URL, you're able to view it too. You can create a new site identity from that too.
Really interesting study. Goes without saying that this would be a lot more impactful if it came with demographic breakdowns and confidence intervals.

It did get me curious as to Swayable's methodology, which isn't really listed on the website (or I didn't find it in a cursory review).

Finally, this would all be more meaningful to view it from a specific purpose lens. Do we care about whether or not it affects sales? Then perhaps it would be helpful to know the results from likely buyers. Do we care whether it affects voters? Then a view of likely voters is relevant.

In any case, I love blog posts like this that share data. I almost always wish they'd dive a little deeper.
But you mentioned car and internet services, those are not luxuries in this day and age when they are required for work
"the majority [of heat comes] from the train hitting the brakes as it pulls into the station, an intense friction that gives off an exorbitant amount of warm air."

I wonder if regenerative brakes can be installed (or are already installed...)
Any fake-Facebook website can copy Facebook's favicon, so that wouldn't add any security at all.

An identicon is a hash value represented as an icon. "facebook.com", for instance, may hash to a red image with a yellow line through it. While you wouldn't remember the icon initially, over time you would – or at least your subconsious would. If you ever visisted a fake-Facebook, you'd immediately notice that something was wrong if the icon suddenly was green with a blue dot in it, for instance.
but showing an incorrect url is a bad practice
The best response:
Sleep? ;)
The war on the middle-class continues:

- Nimbys—scarce expensive housing

- Higher-education costs skyrocketing.

- Negative wage growth for positions without degree requirements.

- Article mentions no more pensions.

Article subject not entirely unexpected. :-/
This could be one of the most well-written contemporary text on computer science. Congratulations to the author.
> My statement is clearly supported by the article.

You're ignoring a direct quote in favor of a Wired reporter paraphrase (one which mentions sharing links, no less). They cite an earlier effort, which was a display change. This issue is for a display change. None of this points to "trying to do away with URLs".
This is magical. How'd you find out about this?
Not sure if serious, but no. Anyone can copy a favicon; the point of an identicon is that it's generated from the domain name, so subverting it would require an attacker to find a hash collision with a visually similar domain.
They're calling out debugging and refactoring? I guess to avoid debugging, you need programmers who can diagnose the problem with no evidence or data.

Not refactoring is like being a file clerk who saves time by never putting anything back.
Maybe haveibeenpwned can start to check IP addresses against these global scans when you visit their site.
No added hormones is normal in most countries, but apparently in the USA you need to go out of your way to not do that.
Ask HN: List of other notable Google privacy issues?
Do anyone have a list of other notable Google privacy issues not mentioned in my overview and when they started beginning to appear? Overview is at http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-mozilla-overview.html if you don't follow me.
The space of easily visually distinguishable images has a certain size. Let's assume there's a deterministic, pseudorandom mapping from domains to images. For a given domain, how many plausible impostor domains are there? What's the chance that there's at least one impostor domain that happens to get the same image?

If you have 1000 distinct images, but a given domain has 5 letters that could each be replaced with any of 3 visually identical Unicode characters, then, well, the chances are very high that there exists a plausible impostor domain with the same image. I don't think this is a very workable approach.
I would argue that culture is incorporated into our genes. For example, humans show signs of domestication, just like certain animals. But domestication is another name for cultural genetics.
> Our parents/grandparents didnt have videogame consoles, laptops, phones, coffee besides cheap store drip, meals out more than 1x per month, tattoos, anything from a spa etc.

They also didn’t have six figure student loan debt, and their housing costs were not 50-75% of their salary. Video games and cell phones are small potatoes—-not what is keeping the current generation financially insecure, but they are visible “luxuries” that Baby Boomers can point to and try to shame people over.
Sorry, to clarify: life's too short to spend time on the type of person that uses the phrase "pick your brain."
Why is Twitter always last to do the right thing? It’s almost like being a publicly traded company robbed them of their last shred of humanity.
Just leave it alone Google. Sheesh.
It's already causing a cancer of the mind.
There are times when I watch his videos that I wonder whether he could be an alien from an advanced civilization sent here to help accelerate our mathematical understanding and reach the singularity sooner. His explanations are 5 standard deviations better than average.
smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health
HN; the place where people use "sign of the derivative" instead of "trend" or "growth".
> They are questioning the very right of these people to exist.

> They are questioning the ability of these people to be in public

Can you provide evidence that Damore or Eich were questioning the right of certain groups to exist?

Are you seriously going to claim Damore was saying women don’t have the right to exist?
However, continuous user tracking
via TLS session resumption is only
possible as long as the browser is
not restarted, because this clears
the TLS cache.

https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2018/2018...
It's their CEO's personality to do things slowly.
Good timing, last thing Amazon will want right now is a battle with a union. Especially for a company they acquired so recently (shows that things got quickly worse with Amazon in charge).

Good luck Whole Foods workers.
The referenced calculator is:

https://saver.oregonsaves.com/home/educational-tools/simple-...

"The assumed investment rate of return before you retire is set at 4%, compounded annually."

The S&P500 has an average rate of real return of 7%, which makes an enormous difference.
The best security change we could make, imo, is rewriting domains so that they look like com.evil.bank.www/now/urls/go/from/most/specific/to/least
While I showed REPLugger with a JavaScript program I wrote, the principles apply to any language, even compiled ones (if they compile fast enough).
I wonder if that deletion can be scriptable and triggered on-demand without restarting by a Firefox extension.
> the current developer base of many FLOSS project don't understand that a) decent UI requires an expertise

One additional problem is that it's hard to know who to listen to. Someone who seems like a confident UI expert might as well be a misguided visionary who will turn GIMP into the next Windows 8. Randomly trusting a designer is probably just as dangerous as randomly trusting a software developer.
When Dropbox was announced for the first time there was a similar comment. :)
> So the “real” world is one ruled by corporations where the decision maker on all policies is someone that never comes within earshot of an actual customer transaction?

The real world is one where you do the job you're paid to do.
I'm occasionally doing that and especially suggest non-technical users to do exactly this thing. I can mistype URL. Google will correct me, if site is well-known. Otherwise I'm risking to go to phishing website.
Guess what? You create more business by not annoying your customers and providing awesome service. These poor attempts at annoying your customers means you will have less of them.
> most of America doesn't have any way of getting to jobs without one

Two things:

1. That's patently false. Most trips in vehicles are between 1 and 10 miles in distance. Anyone without serious health problems can do that on a bicycle quite easily.

2. You don't need a car loan to own a car.

> most people need fundamental nutrients from vegetables just to be able to survive, these vegetables tend to be more expensive than less healthy things

My statement was about people who were broke and/or in debt. And it's not a 100% meal plan, but rice and beans is a good cheap staple food. You can add in cheap produce, too. The crux of the point is: if you're in debt and spending more than ~$1 per meal, you've got an easy way to cut costs.

> internet access gates opportunity in American and for many people their cell phone (which they cannot afford to pay for up front and therefore must lease) and its data plan is there only gateway to the rest of the world

Libraries have free internet and computers. And for cell service, using an MVNO, you can spend ~$30 and get 1GB of data, 100 mins of talk time, 100 text messages. (see Ting.com for example)

>any right to a Gatorade after shooting hoops at your dilapidated public park on a hot day, any right to 30 mins of entertainment after working your mind numbing job that drains of you all life

Are you serious? Getting out of debt is infinitely more important than having a Gatorade or watching Netflix. Especially when there are obvious free alternatives. Streaming Netflix hasn't been around a decade, and it's now "surrendering basic humanity" to go without? That's a pretty fragile position to take.
ha, I had a job interview recently and they had me do a take home thing. They offered to pay me for it, just a few hundred dollars for the time I put in. That's cool.

But in the email they asked if I wanted the money, or I could donate it.

Right now I could use the money, but now I feel just a little bad about it.
"trivial", yeah okay sure...
Sam Altman: People aren't worried enough about Biological Warfare
So DNS over HTTPS sounds great.
Thanks for your feedback. You're totally right, demographic breakdowns and confidence intervals are important. There's a link to the demo at the bottom of the blog post where you can see that. The little gray lines on each graph indicate the confidence intervals. The bars are grayed out if the result isn't statistically significant. There several demographic breakdowns available as well.
Where are you getting 37k ?

First hit on google for usa median income is 59k https://amp.businessinsider.com/us-census-median-income-2017...
Only until the Legislature or Executive chooses to change those arbitrary rules. They could choose a new delivery partner (or multiple, subject to open access criteria they designate)
>10 hours away

Time isn't a very good measure of distance
It's a coop, that's what they do.

FWIW the dividend is pretty nice. Combined with the sale I saved a pretty solid chunk of money on a nice cooler.
because it is totally irrelevant to shareholder lockups

they only moved because their california employees were having a breakdown
Anyone know what videos or tweets were 'abusive'? Twitter didn't say which ones they were.

Twitter needs to be more transparent about this stuff. Especially when banning one of the most influential conspiracy theorist in the world.

Not to mention a vague and/or arbitrary banning policy is always a bad idea.
Also noted in the bug:

m.tumblr.com IS NOT a mobile variant of tumblr.com

I kinda wished I had that blog now so I could put a proof of concept up to show why this is a very bad idea from a phishing perspective.
I don't believe I said, or implied, it was. I also don't think it's particularly apples-to-apples to compare a box with a couple NIH Perl scripts and a service with $100mm+ in annual revenues for whom that's their sole job. I promise you, they aren't just in a single AZ.
There's a chain of restaurants called The Melting Pot which does fondue entrees and desserts. Not something we do regularly, but it's an interesting niche.
If Twitter wants to ban him, then they can ban him. I honestly don’t know how he gained so much publicity as a conspiracy theorist, but he sounds like someone who’s drive is to continuously poke the sleeping bear and bother people for the sake of being an asshole. Abusive behavior was his business model.
> celebrating this as it means Twitter is holding to their own published policies.

Have they banned the racist New York Times editor yet?
Message 3[1] in the linked discussion has a great counter-example:
"How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ?

One takes you to the website about the project, the other goes to a random ntp server."

I do totally agree about m., but it's not Google's place to dictate that, rather it's a decision for each entity to make for themselves.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410...
> Amazon will win the PR battle

Which is how corporations win the war. Know why you couldn't afford whole foods before? Because too many people are selfish and shortsighted and would rather save 1 dollar than ensure anyone else makes an extra 2 bucks an hour. Corporations, lobbyists, and government policy have been decimating unions for decades and the results are very apparent when you look at any graph of actual wages. Executives skyrocket, workers are flat at best.
Ah, what you say makes sense, (although the survival strategy metaphor is somewhat grotesque) I was mainly puzzled by the context, which seemed to be

Q. Why kill other sentient beings at all
A. Because in many cases it is necessary for the survival of the species.

i.e. offering "help them survive" as a reason to kill them.

ps Some of the other descendant comments are very troubling, and remind me of what I heard a young female environmentalist say at a political meeting once, that "individual animals don't matter, only species matter." (i.e. the loss/death/killing of 1 animal meant nothing, but the extinction of a species meant a lot) Which was one of the most horrific things I'd ever heard, maybe because coming from an environmentalist, who are supposed to be the good guys. I guess it was the "animals only have value as things exploitable by humans" element to what she said, of which she seemed unaware. As if humans are the only life form with any value! Human, all too human.
So you replied that you'll donate the money yourself to the charity of your choosing?
Here’s a better example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930788
I've been shopping at REI for years and have never been asked about membership by the people working the floor. Also if you're shopping at REI without a membership you're doing it wrong. You get a percentage of every purchase back as dividend that you can put towards anything in the store.
True. Here are my list that you can see without signing up:

https://huggylist.com/list/1536198504878x785808309764751400

https://huggylist.com/list/1536123944713x251698623977357300
Yeah, looks like I replied to the wrong one. Sorry about that.
All due respect, smoke causes cancer, images don't cause mental health problems.

If cigarettes weren't addictive they'd still be REALLY bad for you.

The problem with Facebook (or current Social Media) is that it IS addictive, and therefore bad, if it wasn't addictive it wouldn't necessarily be bad for you.
Indeed.

I know people who deliberately don’t save for retirement because they are betting that by the time they are old, the majority of people also won’t have enough, and the government politically can’t let elderly people mass-die on the street. When the non-savers vastly outnumber the savers, the retirement problem could be solvable politically.
Here's where I'd make the informative comment about how that Rubio video is heavily edited and post a link to the full video, but that wouldn't be effective because I'm shadow banned on here. Ah censorship. Nope nothing wrong here. Move along.
Slack is having connection issues again
The dataset you are looking for is a pretty common marketing research dataset which may help your Google queries.
You should look at section 2.2 in the article. Miami has more cooling degree days (2423) per year than Phoenix (2327) or Las Vegas (1786).
I'm not sure this shows things got quickly worse. It may just show Whole Foods employees lost control they used to have but I think you are jumping to conclusions.
I would agree, but something to think about is Twitter and facebook govern the behaviour of the people around me more than my country's government, probably.
>Seems like you've invented hypothetical problems to complain about. The existing Roomba has none of the issues you speculate it has

Current one doesn't feature persistent maps, either.

The new one does, and is app-controlled. 10 years into the future, you will still be able to find spare parts for the now-10-year-old-Roomba, but good luck with the app.
"do the right thing" is difficult when you are suppressing free speech on a platform that's supposed to be all about it.
Does anyone still actually think that Alex Jones isn't a character or persona being put on by an actor, like Colbert's Colbert Report character? Not that this excuses anything he says or does of course (though apparently what he said here wasn't a big deal at all)... but how anyone can think Jones acts the way he does on-camera after the cameras are turned off and nobody is looking is beyond me. His lawyer essentially admitted as much in court!
The donation inquiries are not from Amazon, they were doing this well before Amazon bought them.
The US also has radically cheaper groceries than virtually any other developed country.
How to procrastinate recursively?
To which they replied, "no worries let me know your favorite charity and we'll send it over right away!" LOL
REI is one of the most responsible retail business around in my mind. They still operate as a co-op and I don't expect that to change in the foreseeable future. I haven't experienced any pushiness from their staff, which is anecdotal, but I've been a customer for years in a least 4 states.

If you anticipate shopping there more than once, or for any large item (excluding sales), then a membership is worth it. The dividend is 10% so it pays for itself after $200.
How can you hide your income from passthrough if you are a sole proprietor earning more than 150% of poverty?
The 3x the article states means total retirement savings. 401k included. I really hope you know more than a few people with 300k in 401k if they earn 100k/year.
there’s an industry of tabloids and publishers waiting with open arms for nork defectors to denounce their former government. these defectors are basically the dregs of society in south korea; impoverished, unskilled, widely despised and easily identifiable. many of them effectively live in the projects together, working low wage jobs and facing discrimination from the public. if you can make some bank telling a particularly lurid versions of stories you’ve heard back home, and there’s little other opportunity...

none of this is to say that the NK regime doesn’t commit atrocities. i’m certain some of the stories are true. i only mean to point out that there are perverse incentives that point exclusively in one direction.
How to Successfully Delegate Tasks and Easily Get Things Done
Phil Anderson (Nobel-prize winning physicist) wrote a thought-provoking take on emergence in "More is different" [1] talking about how interactions between collections of components can lead to emergent behavior that is qualitatively very different. Anderson was arguing against the reductionist perspective, and pointing out that emergent effects are as important (and worthy of being considered "fundamental") as reducing a system to its components.

Thinking about it some more, I think that emergence is not something to be avoided, but embraced. Emergence is what gives rise to abstractions. Embracing abstractions is the reason we need compositionality -- the ability to translate from one level of abstraction to another, and glue together different abstractions/pieces [2]. If you didn't have emergent behavior, and all your pieces have the same level of abstraction, then there's not much structure to be exploited in how you combine them.

Concretely, think of emergence as the reason why a function can become an atomic unit in a new effective description, even though it is composed of other units (statements/functions).

[1] http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo...

[2] John Hughes demonstrates how higher order functions and lazy evaluation are useful tools to glue together pieces, in "Why functional programming matters" -- https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...
Google may not be the best model to aid researchers, or the most useful and profitable. An AWS meets Coursera meets helpful tech and engineering consulting/support shop seems like a better, full-service model to help bio people accomplish their work while having the support of a top-notch IT/engineering organization. Professional services without the delay, cost or extractive tendencies... more like kick-ass support that gets things done right now.
Or simply introduce themselves as the vector for charity, taking corporate credit for the donations of their customers.
Banks do lend against receivables.
Wouldn't drawing attention to bannable offenses be Streisand effect-y?
Not sure why your getting downvoted. GP is spreading FUD.
I don't agree with your definition of "racism" here. If it's racially discriminatory in effect, by my reckoning, it's racist, even if no actor has racist intent.

In the question of hiring, what I most favor is measures to reward the hiring of a diverse workforce as a countervailing force to structural forces that lead to racist outcomes. I feel this would work better than trying to impose some method of hiring. This is not really that different from Affirmative Action, which of course does not actually prescribe that minority candidates most always be selected.
Alex Jones is free to express his speech on his own website as much as he pleases. "Free Speech" is not about forcing a company to host content they don't like. That would be against Twitter's freedoms. Alex Jones will still be heard by his audience.
Twitter isn’t going to broadcast or link to tweets that were bad enough to merit a ban, for obvious reasons- they’re banning it precisely to avoid having that content be propagated any further.
The data you're looking for (as well as dozens of other interesting data fields) is available from the Census Bureau:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/subject...

It's updated annually and you can get data all the way down to the census tract level (or maybe even individual blocks, I don't remember). It's a really great resource.

You can grab the data as CSV here:

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/20...

They have a web UI too.
Does it matter? His viewers see him as genuine and believe the things he says. When people watched Colbert, most of them got the joke because it was clearly satire. Jones hiding behind 'its a character' is such a flimsy and useless excuse.