skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does make a ton of money from ads and tracking, but how do they not "sell software and media" too? They sell apps and media in the same manner that Apple does.
This is it. Safari really doesn't compare to chrome/firefox in terms of good developer tools. They are there, but no where near as useful/powerful.

I have noticed a few quirks in Safari that I have to work around. Like not rendering things exactly the same way as chrome/firefox. Bit of a pain, but there is never anything that's really "broken".
It's not in the company's interest to contract an arbiter that doesn't typically rule in their favor. Customers/workers don't choose the arbiter, the company does. This is a conflict of interest and absolutely is a "causation" thing. Small claims court cases are pretty cheap.
> even though the development time is obviously shorter with electron

Evidence? I think you're making a great point (about the reputation of html/css/js) but leave the unfounded claims out and your point would be stronger.
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Are these fines actually ever collected/paid?

I remember the five billion dollar fine sourced out of GDPR, but is that ever actually initiated or part of an ongoing power play?
> Do you see this ever changing?

Probably not in my lifetime, unless the state's efforts to attract big technology business (the "silicon slopes" initiative) draws enough people from out-of-state to seriously dilute the local population. But Mormons as a whole have a lot of kids, so it's a curious competition.
It's not purely a question of translating the website. There might be different laws and customs depending on the domain.
My understanding was that ESNI would not make it's way into OpenSSL until it reaches RFC status / standard ratified. It won't be in 1.1.1. Is someone from the EFF going to help OpenSSL support this any time soon? Or perhaps GnuTLS?
So am I right in concluding that the design was simple enough to be mostly forking-paths-free, and there weren't any oddly specific choices made in the analysis (to dig a "significant" result out of the data)?

The fact that it could be replicated from details in the paper without excessive expense or difficulty is also reassuring, even before knowing if such a replication has taken place.
Dogs do it, albeit with human help. Considering that humans that grew up alone, ie. feral, seem to have no self control either I would think that dogs get to count too
They are obviously making the strongest possible claim they can potentially make, since facts are open to interpretation. It would be sub-optimal strategy to file a lawsuit and say "it's kinda bad, can you take a look?"
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Forgive my ignorance, but what are the negatives to arbitration? Isn't that basically a private court system used because the government court system is so slow and inefficient? Isn't that a good thing?
Google Play Services and other nonfree Google software can be installed on top of LineageOS, but LineageOS does not include them in its installation. I've used Lineage extensively with F-Droid as my apps source.
> The presence of a private browser window (anywhere) will prevent it from deleting cookies when you close this private browser window?

Yes. This is not new behavior. And yes, it frustrates people that assume each window is a separate incognito instance. It's not, and hasn't ever been.
>> It doesn't work that way for knowledge workers and creative types.

SAG WGA DGA

Last I checked all the best people in those fields were members.
Oh, and I'll reiterate the real estate tax issue - you can definitely get a bigger, more livable place here, but the taxes are sort of obscene. For example, you can get a nice, newish 2br / 2ba condo in your choice of neighborhoods, probably with parking for 450k. Your tax bill will be 8-9k.
Something that'll happen in the future is harder to make it tangible (that china `credit score` thing was way scary though). Also, it's difficult to figure out like what should and shouldn't be exposed on the internet. And, regarding the loved ones, everyone needs to be on this thing together to make it work. For example like, I try to be privacy conscious, while my friend exposes everything about me on say Facebook doesn't really help me.
Looking at a tutorial, it looks like all it does is layout the form for you. That's a shame. Things closer to what the original VB was are sorely missed in modern computing.
I'm co-founder of Root Health. We empower patients with empathetic support and next best actions to ease the burden of clinical trials.

https://roothealthapp.com

It matters because there are very few people actually focusing on the patient experience in clinical trials. Most companies building solutions in this space see patients as the barrier to data instead of the reason why trials exist.
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Sure, but the idea is that you can pay another service to do the translations. The main difficulty is supporting things like right-to-left text and other specific characteristics, but that shouldn't be a problem in Europe only.
Dresden, Germany

As far as daily life is concerned, I have a few nits to pick, but nothing that "sucks about where [I] live".

The only thing I can really complain about is that Dresden is (sort of) the xenophobia capital of the country. There's far-right protests on a weekly cycle [1] and the conservative state government is still denying that there even is a xenophobia problem, even though attacks on foreign-looking people and refugee homes are depressingly common.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida
Weddings became a market to manipulate just like any other. From the rings to the honeymoon, everything has been commoditized, including an entire industry that perpetuates the 'ideal' (magazines, pinterest, etc.).

What used to be private, family-only affairs has now morphed into a 'need' to invite 200 or so people you don't know and feed them so they give you gifts.
Quite informative, thanks.
As far as I know, only (disclaimer: mine) GUN supports mutable (which enables deleting or changing data) updates in a P2P/decentralized network.

Other systems all use some variant of immutable data structures (hashes, append-only logs, DAGs, etc.) vs CRDTs which can do immutable OR mutable data.
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For example, I'm interested in serverless technologies and have to write a master thesis in CS, how do I find out what sub-topics are currently researched?
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I think the idea is that "force" sounds like Uber is doing it without a prior arbitration agreement. "Enforce" sounds like Uber is doing it after an agreement with drivers. The latter is what is actually happening.

It's a small difference but it matters. The power difference is a separate issue between employers and employees is a separate (important) issue, though.
As did I and the excellent rabbit hole that it led to.
I can't remember the last time I went to a medical provider who didn't force you to sign an arbitration waiver. There's no realistic alternative.
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> I suspect it's a mistake to take this to the logical conclusion that we can make no conscious decisions.

And I don't! I consider it unproven, but a duality option definitely remains an option. Plus, there's always the default excuse that if I assume consciousness is reality when I can't in fact decide, well, then I can't be blamed for coming to that conclusion :)

That said, I think we really need to pay attention to how many "conscious" decisions we don't bother to be conscious for. I have a personal theory that consciousness is a state that is generally invoked only when the mind doesn't have a preset behavior - consciousness is invoked to ponder "what if" and decide what to do. Once we have prescribed behavior, consciousness shuts down. Thus, we might be "conscious" for only a few hours or even less in an average day. If so, we CAN be self-aware more often, but it takes effort.

Side Note: This theory is based in part on the idea that there's an advantage in minimizing conscious time - be that caloric requirements or an innate danger of being too aware. I've recently read some claims that hurt the caloric argument (brains are high caloric things, but that doesn't mean consciousness requires more calories) but the innate dangers of overthinking remain strong but vague and anecdotal.

Finding ways to make and support this theory without lapsing into it being an automatic (and thus not trigging awareness) response gets more tricky each time :)
Millennials are forced to be more careful, because they're climbing a difficult and important ladder into financial security. Most people I know who aren't looking to marry are just very aware that this is not the right time for them, neither finically nor in relation to achieving their professional goals.
It makes me wonder if we're about to see a large increase in corruption. In societies where the enforcement mechanisms are widely perceived to be in the pocket of powerful self-interested organizations, workers often don't just lie down dead and take it (well, some do, but not all). A significant fraction instead turn to covert activities that subvert the effectiveness of their employer and enrich themselves, but can't be easily detected. So the Uber driver might hold to the letter of his contract, much as it screws him, but surreptitiously pass Uber data on to Lyft as a side job. The service worker may put in the hours according to their contract and hop to it whenever the boss asks, but when the boss isn't in, they're going to ask for a little bribe under the table to actually give you service. The boss might even be in on it, splitting the pool with his workers so they can slack off and demand bribes even when he's looking but never reporting their side business to corporate management.

I've always wondered about the logic of the certain faction who wants to roll back basic protections of the rule of law to some fraction of society. Or actually, I get it - they always believe that they're in the fraction that will come out ahead, and can co-opt the enforcement mechanism to do their bidding. But I think a lot of these same interests underestimate the degree to which they depend upon the norms of functioning democratic society. Also common to high-corruption societies is the need to hire private security & intelligence forces to prevent a disgruntled rival from offing you and your whole family; are the new corporate oligarchs willing to go there, and live in that fear just so they can make more money?
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When I worked at Amazon in 2009 I brought my own monitor, chair and keyboard, because standard one were, well... sub-standard. :)
Well shit, if we're just making things up, then why stop there?
Market research has shown that "Firefox" has much better brand recognition than "Mozilla."
Calgary here

Pros:

* young, positive population with drive & ambition

* outdoor & health focus

* expanding cultural diversity, western hospitality

* no sales tax

* Calgary Stampede

Cons:

* focus on Oil & Gas masks other opportunities, startups

* boring IT jobs

* rising cost of living

* the weather

* Calgary Stampede
and in the US, our only option is the smart fortwo, which is starts at $25K.

granted, it's better engineered, but i doubt it's 16 times better.
This is just a speculation, but it can be that people sell/buy facebook pages that already have many likes.
If they coun't how would they be able to make their claims?

I could see difficulties if there were multiple copies in different places or some such that would make a naive test non-diagnostic.
A union isn't a bureaucracy it's a collection of people with aligned goals. If an entire industry is entirely full of shit I don't understand why they couldn't collectively bargain for whatever within reason is required to improve the situation.

I can only suppose that people with perspectives like yours have convinced themselves and others the possible is in fact impossible for no discernible reason.
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The state already bailed out the banks, including this one, back in 2008. Denmark has a larger banking sector relative to the economy than most countries, and the politicians thought it was a good idea to bail them out.

What's scandalous is they didn't insist on wiping out the shareholders.
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My understanding is that arbitrators do actually rule against the company from time to time, it's not a pure rubber stamp.

It seems like one thing to do would be to make sure to rule against the company for small cases with limited damages, to keep up your credibility and ensure that the big cases always go in the company's favor. I don't know if arbitrators do this, but I wouldn't be surprised.
This looks to be a much better interface to a data set the city has and makes available but with a horrible UI.

There's also a 1940's dataset that isn't available online but you can order prints. Got a 1940's one yesterday for my new place and has a kid looking out the neighbor's window. Crazy to think what's transpired out that window in the intervening time.

Would love to see the 1940's one online and wrapped up in street view!
It doesn't have to be malicious for it to harm privacy, help them track users for advertising and to be anti-competitive.

The implementation details around cookie recreation don't matter if users are still being tracked. Especially bad if this lets them track you on third party sites that contain Google Plus buttons or advertising iframes.

By ensuring users always remain logged in to the browser they gain a strong advantage over other companies that track users. Users attempting to remove tracking cookies shouldn't find Google ones permanently bundled with the browser.

The intent was likely to aid convenience and avoid users being unexpectedly logged out, but combined with Google automatically logging users into the browser this is a sign that the Chrome team is paying less attention to user privacy than they used to.

Perhaps users who regularly clear all cookies will start using guest accounts instead. Myself I'm more concerned about the general trend of unexpected behavior.
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This is not possible because of quantum mechanics. You cannot know the exact location and speed of particles in your brain and therefore cannot build a deterministic model to predict its behavior.
Lived in Stoke for around 8 months last year, moved from Stafford.

Stafford isn't the best place in the world, but I regret that decision so badly, moved to Brum recently and I couldn't be happier. Everyone here complains about it but I'm really enjoying not having to deal with Hanley or Shelton on the regular, still got friends up there so I'll go and visit occasionally but it's a horrible place to live in my experience.

Used to live in Hanley, just opposite the Emma Bridgewater place.
Free markets rely on educated consumers operating in a transparent market.

Ubers model works because they externalize a lot of operating costs to ignorant (under-informed) "contractors", and obscuring the economic realities from customers.

So I think it's fair to hate the player.
Juneau, Alaska

- There isn't much developable land as a lot of it is locked up in national forests or government or tribal entities, so housing prices and rent are high.

- Food prices are high due to transport requirements, both for groceries and restaurants (Juneau has no roads in, so everything comes by air or by sea).

- Wages are not especially high.

- Almost every couple ends up working two incomes to deal with the prices of food and housing.

- There is a severe daycare shortage in town which leads to problems trying to manage kids and multiple incomes.

- Lots of rain in the spring and in the fall.

However, when the sun is shining, it is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

If you like being outside, it's one of the best places for experiencing the outdoors that I know of. There is almost nowhere in town where you are more than about a 15 minute walk from being either beside water, or hiking a mountain.

It also has a deep sense of community and people here seem genuinely interested in helping each other.
I should post one soon... good suggestion
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Why no rle encoded string length? You cannot access the string then directly, but you can handle arbitrary string lengths and still save a lot of space. inlined strings for short strings or interned strings for faster comparison and sort are also important types. ropes maybe also.
Men typically don't take custody (IIRC, they often don't even ask). So he assumed the children would stay with the woman, and be a drag on her dating life, while the man would pay child support. It doesn't have to be this way, but it usually is.
The talent pool is deepest in the valley/SF and the VCs do have connections within it. You're also close to your VCs, and some VCs do provide helpful guidance to founders (that's what YC is all about).
It happens to all of us.
At that point, there are a number of existing competent development boards that already exist.
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BTW. Dresden is the rape-capital of Germany (after Berlin). Done mostly by immigrants (90%).
And they look like a BMW, Mini or Jeep!
The parent was talking about people being forced to work for 1c/hr. It's an absurd claim, and that hypothetical person could walk into basically any other job. Preferably one paying more than minimum wage.
Austin:

- Traffic (goes without saying in most booming US cities). Infrastructure is largely unchanged since the 70s. Poorly mismanaged toll roads are instead implemented. Drivers are fucking god-awful (seriously, nowhere in the Northeast was it as bad as it is in the South -- something about the heat). With no short or long term solution in sight for remedying the traffic that worsens every day, makes me worry about staying here much longer, let alone buy property.

- Homeless. Many TX (and other US cities for that matter) cities have no qualms about giving their homeless one-way bus tickets to here. They're nasty too. Even more nasty than NYC's homeless. City has no idea what to do about it.

- Despite there being plenty of new apartment complexes near downtown being erected, there's still lots of obstinacy to increasing housing density. Also some of the most bizarre zoning laws I've ever seen (don't get me started on what Austin considers "historical").

- While there are many outdoor places to hike and whatnot, many of the day hikes are largely the same scenery. Places in Austin will get packed with loud and disrespectful UT students. I miss actual mountains and dense woods.

- Each month or so, some cool and irreplaceable bar/restaurant/music venue that's been around for decades closes down (mainly due to rising property taxes with no ceiling in sight). What replaces them is often some generic crap millennial chain seen in other tech hubs.

- They say it's the Live Music Capital of the World, but they don't tell you that 95% of the music sucks (and much like the previous point, the city continues day-by-day to become more hostile to artists in general).

- Some would say the heat, but it personally doesn't bother me. It's a relatively dry heat in the summer anyway. Better than humid Northeast summers.
No, the lashing out at another human.
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At the time in question, NT Server was a real threat. Commercial unixes were expensive to get and worse to maintain. NT Server was (by most accounts) TERRIBLE, yet as servers became more mainstream, NT Server (and IIS) became more common because alternatives weren't considered viable. Heck, even Linux success was often contrary to the expectations from above. Plenty of articles in the 90s covered how techies would install Linux in secret because had it been known they'd have been told to use NT.

Meanwhile, on the desktop Microsoft literally invested in Apple to prop up the idea that they had competition. Had Microsoft not done so, and they likely would not have had they not been afraid of antiitrust concerns, would Apple have survived to become the behemoth it is today? Does anyone think that NeXtStep, however nice their work, would have been even a speed bump to MS?
https://medium.com/@roblea_63049/the-double-slit-experiment-... is one of many examples of double slit "woo" debunking. In short, the issue is that any attempt at measuring the particle's position necessarily causes the wave function to collapse. This measuring has no relation to consciousness.
Well, if it's good enough for Sweden, I don't see why not.
Exactly! Also, where do we draw a line between private and public? Especially when you don't know weather the digital records of you today can be abused in the future. Like where should I draw this line and say, "yep this shouldn't be here". And even If I draw this line, what about my other loved ones? they have to be onboard on this too, otherwise this can all be futile. It's just such a huge topic and we don't really know what will happen in the future (except in china, man that's scary). And this may be the reason why there are people who don't care about it all, or people who are really paranoid, and somewhere in the middle who just don't know what to do.
This is so frustrating to read as a service provider.

Especially because a well-done infrastructure scales so much harder than the manual style. We're currently dealing with a bit of fallout from a bureaucratic system at one point. People are so confused because to get a custom container build, all they do is create a repository with a specific name and a templated Jenkinsfile and 10 - 15 minutes later they get a mail with deployment instructions. It's so easy, and no one has to do anything else.
Obviously shorter to people who have done HTML/CSS/JS for some time, same with Qt/C++ or Qt/Python.
This is an interesting idea if you have high ceilings. In my experience, a room small enough to make this system worth using would also have low ceilings. My ceilings are 8 ft, so unless the proposed bed and ceiling boxes are less than 2 feet tall I'm going to be hitting my head on them all the time.

To be honest, this seems like the Juicero of furniture: an expensive tech solution to a non-tech problem. The problem is solved for a fraction of the cost with a daybed that has storage underneath.[1] It is, after all, still a combination sleep/living area with storage room for clothes.

As someone working on a furniture solution for small spaces and with a history of professional furniture building, turning furniture into built-in moving electronics is IMO not the solution:

1. It increases the cost of the furniture to be out of the range of your customers, who are typically in a small space because they do not have a ton of extra money.

2. Good luck getting your landlord to approve bolting large furniture to your ceiling, and what do you do when you move?

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70320135/
On the other hand, saffron is still ridiculously expensive (or at least the shops often price it like that).
This is why Unions are so important. I understand how it might not make much sense for high wage jobs like engineering to Unionize but I really can't see the negative side to Unions for low wage jobs for everyone besides the employer (I do not buy the increase consumer price or laissez-faire arguments). One of the best benefits from a Union is a sponsored lawyer to represent you when you don't have the money to fight the big guys.