skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to make light of the point you're making, but by far and large customers actively want this.

There's a large market opportunity right now for voice controlled systems. Controlling those systems with your voice means they have to be able to listen to you. Full stop.

While I think it's going to take a long time before we truly understand the repercussions of those systems (and I want to be clear, I say that not as an omen of fear and doom, but as a literal statement: We don't understand exactly what level of monitoring we're ok with or is appropriate as a society) I think complaining that google is acting in a solely nefarious way by attempting to incorporate voice control into the browser is disingenuous.

Windows (the literal glass ones) also allow people to see into your home. They let any random stranger on the street walk right up and view the things you own, as well as yourself and your family. But by far and large we've decided we like windows enough that the privacy loss is worth it.
I know you’re being downvoted for snark but I’m going to take a shot at answering this anyway.

In a world where Value is measured in Value in news these days is entirely dictated by the Cost By Impression there’s a huge gap in getting news that’s hugely valuable for only a small audience. In this case it may be an audience of one but he’s apparently willing to both fund the work and share the findings and that’s better than nothing. Perhaps it’s better to ask why people aren’t willing to pay a few bucks to know where their data is going everyday and why we need a single benefactor to make up the difference?
Unless you're compiling yourself, all software is "blobs".
Delayed sleep in adolescence has been observed in controlled settings, across levels of technological development, and even in other mammals.

School schedules currently require many teenagers to get up before the sun just to get to classes, let alone before-school activities.

The proposal is to start classes no earlier than 8:30. According to the statistics in the article, 14% of schools already do. 90% would have to change their start times by an hour or less. That's also around the time most adults arrive at work.

The few early risers can find something to do with the extra time, be happy for their friends, and take comfort in the lower rate of car accidents.
Brave seems to be focusing on a monetization model that prevents third parties from tracking its users.

Seems like a win-win.

I’m okay with them hijacking ads if that allows them to succeed and thrive.
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Search for "gun rights" in Google, and the Wikipedia feature box on the top-right of the results page is the Gun Control article.

I've noticed the straight search results making a marked decline in quality over the past few months. If one of the keywords within your search is anything remotely profitable, it will drown out all other terms. Then the search results ended after ~4 pages.

Definitely changed from the Google I "grew up on."
You don’t need to ban cars, build dense multifamily buildings, dig subways, live close to a central business district, etc. to be in a position where kids can walk to school. That’s still perfectly compatible with suburbia.
Can I get a few more 50% discounts stacked on top of that offer? I'd like 150% off, please.
Thanks for the update.

Shame about all the conspiracy theories regarding this topic. It seemed likely enough to boil down to a logical explanation.
Value isn’t always measured in revenue or the size of the audience.
If "being exposed to ideas you might not agree with" is good, then why does that only get applied to students on one side of the political spectrum? Don't the leftist students also deserve the "real value in being challenged to think critically about why you don't agree"?

I could count on one hand the places where it goes the other way. Let's see, Bob Jones University...
It seems like they're doing something similar to how Reddit's "hot" algorithm reportedly works. As of 2015, that was supposedly like:

log(upVotes - downVotes) - (hoursOld / 12.5),

according to https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algo....

Fair Trending basically differs just in the log() part, substituting (fractionUpVotes * views) for (upVotes - downVotes). This could change the ranking if a lot of people view without voting either way.
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Thanks for the tips. I hadn't heard of Vivaldi or Brave.
My cousin and uncle bought a parrot together a few years ago. They absolutely loved it. My uncle would go out to get the mail with the thing on his shoulders every day. Then, about 2 years ago, my cousin passed away unexpectedly, and my uncle was heartbroken for the loss of his 26 year old son. Fast forward a couple of weeks, my uncle still is in mourning, but gets the courage to get the mail and return to a normal life. The bird was on his shoulders as usual. Out of nowhere, a hawk lunges at him and snatches him up from his shoulders. It all happened within an instant. The entire neighborhood must have heard his wailing. I shudder just to think about this unfolding.

For anyone with such pets, please don't drop your guard down, especially if you love your pet like a member of the family. Predators such as hawks and the occasional coyote or bobcat do roam cities and are closer to us than we're aware.
Devil's advocate: when that new market settles (app-only is the norm and not a "challenger"), will the effort/cost expended on effort be as high?
A week?! How did anyone appreciate “Aida” before the phonograph was invented?
There are other search engines and one can easily just type bing.com into their browser and set it as the default. Even on Chrome.

I'm not sure why you remember MS the way you do. There was a much much larger barrier for consumers to move to a different OS. If you owned a PC you pretty much had to run Windows. And MS made it extremely difficult to use a non-IE browser in the OS.

That doesn't mean I think they're innocent in all things but I don't see how their search market share is a monopoly target.
It really changed my perspective of how to find out if a side project could work or not. https://www.programsnow.com/
Yeah, that was what I referred to with the "dark paths". But the Cold War is long past, it's a different world.
Microsoft left IE6 stagnant. They didn't "abuse their position" other than through inactivity.

Google is actively involved in the standardization process, and moved Youtube over to a new API too prematurely (v0 of a spec). Now that v1 has been standardized, they're updating to that instead.

These are opposite problems. Microsoft got complacent whereas Google moved too fast.
Reminder that being in the room doesn't mean anything if the people in the room aren't legally beholden to you.
I did great with my friend's Vive until an apparently software bug did an unexpectedly fast zoom... instant nausea! I was disappointed bc I was having fun. It went away after about two hours.
> [news articles will] start going up on the website in early 2019.

I really can't wait for this to take off sooner!

> Ms. Angwin compares tech to canned food, an innovation that took some time to be seen with more scrutiny.

Technology has become a boon in many ways and improved people's lives significantly, but we also seem to be heading toward a future that's completely controlled by a few powerful companies who won't (and after a certain point can't) stop being evil and making huge groups of people further disadvantaged because of said technology.

This site's emphasis on combining technologists with journalists is much needed.

I only hope it can survive the long term and that readers will support it. I for one will be looking forward to the content and supporting it monetarily or otherwise.
It's a non-profit, so probably not much if any advertising, and they'll likely be drawing a lot from ProPublica's model in terms of organization, impact, and growth. ProPublica's annual expenses were over $12 million in 2016, and if you're interested you can get a rough breakdown of where that goes in their 990:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/142...
Ha! Ours were the exact opposite, they would fly into the living room and scream their heads off for a while, but then would be on high alert for the rest of the day, getting spooked by any sudden movements.
The comparison to canned food is interesting. It probably resonates with people better than comparing the tech industry to cigarettes. Few people now remember how beloved cigarettes were in their heyday.
I think that's very dangerous. A lot of the tech that worked out only did so because the people working on it put users first, not technology first.

A classic example here is Apple. They did not make the first personal computer, the first MP3 player, or the first smartphone. Those were made by people focused on the tech. Instead, Apple took mostly-existing tech and really focused on delivering value to users.

I think a user-first attitude is important even when making consumer gadgets. But a student-first focus is vital for education. There are a zillion examples of educational tools and methods inflicted upon kids not because they were better for students, but because somebody wanted to prove something.
- Many dependencies of dev projects are simply source files which will be compiled on-the-fly. Or at least that's the case in the languages I normally work with.

- Some blobs are more trustworthy than others.
This is basically a summary of why I _don't_ want to move to Silicon Valley. Sure, I could make more money, but I'd play most of it into housing and I'd probably end up with a long commute and a boring place to live.
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You can express that opinion, but it sounds awfully like you don't understand what your source ("Scott Alexander") was saying, or perhaps that both you and your source don't understand (a) the distinction between practice and research and (b) the relative cultural fixity of institutional reviews in biomedical research versus talk therapy.

So I guess what I'd say is that it looks like the one thing you know about IRBs is that Scott from SlateStarCodex once had a run-in with them and generalized wildly from it.
ProtonMail. Definitely ProtonMail. You can live off it for free as long as you delete old stuff but paying better for I think $5 a month (maybe more or less). Free is perfectly adequate for me personally though, I made the switch a couple months ago and haven't looked back. Might wanna set up auto forwarding though:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en
Turtl requires a server to sync, right? I don't remember that turning me off initially, but after using Joplin - I really wish more apps would make use of regular plain-text file syncing.

Have you thought about having Turtl sync to a local directory, or using something like nextcloud/dropbox? I don't know much about the backend of Turtl, so I'm not sure how reliant it really is on the server process..

I'll look for the 0.7.0 release and check it out, thanks!
I prefer each website be in control over their own monetization model and not dictated by the whims of a browser vendor without their consent.
The Constitution is a law, and that’s how laws work. Either follow it or agree to change it. The Constitution has a whole provision explaining how to change it—that would be irrelevant if it contemplated people just ignoring it when they didn’t like the result.
I am never going to use any GNOME product if intend to use it for more than a week. Too many breaking changes, too many feature changes, too often.
I was excited by “Don’t be evil” back in the early days. But maybe they should’ve chosen “Don’t be stupid or evil” because their amnesia, arrogance and carelessness remind me of so many hilarious sad stories from the early days in the tech industry as recounted in this book which I own:

In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Consciousness is an abstract, non-physical structure and concept, but everything we know suggests it is inextricably tied to and an emergent phenomenon of the brain.

In the distant future there may be a way to extract and transfer consciousness into a new substrate, but with current technology, there's no reason to believe any sort of life, consciousness, sentience, awareness, etc. after death is possible at all. Just because it's possible in theory doesn't mean that applies to any currently living humans.
I'd recommend Firefox with a paid VPN instead. PIA is supposed to be good as a VPN (Private Internet Access), I personally use HOXX for free when I need one. NoScript + uBlock Origin + a VPN should leave you nearly 100% secure but if you wanna go full throttle Tor is an option.
You didn't mention when you woke up or when classes started. An hour can make a world of difference.

Selection based on academic performance usually means above-average intelligence, which is still an asset when you're tired. It also means you were selected partly based on how well you dealt with your previous schools' start times.

You mentioned this was long ago. The subject is better studied now and people are more aware of it. Even still, a lot of people insist it's a matter of discipline. Would it have been socially acceptable for someone to complain about it publicly or even among their friends? Did most have anything to compare it to?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016007
You likely have much more experience than me.

I grew up in the sticks. We had cats, but not specifically for keeping mice out of a barn. They were pets.

The character of the cat seems to be the key thing. One cat would spend all day hunting. She was a killing machine. She had no need for food, just really liked killing things. Also, a pretty sweet cat, unless you were carrying milk. Then she'd bite your ankle.

Perhaps she was just an outlier. But, uh, if you believe in the 10x programmer, trust me. There are also 10x hunter cats.
I've been very happy with Fastmail.
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Just remember that NoOps isn't actually no operations. That's the cargo cult version of NoOps. Instead it's outsourcing operations and relying that the outsource vendors operations team will do a better and more accountable job than any internal team you could build.

So, a database service instead of a locally managed database and a reliance on the service vendor to back things up, keep the code up to date and manage reliability. That's not a bad choice but you still want someone with the judgement to evaluate vendor claims, performance, exceptions and the like.
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I've been using DDG for a few years now as my primary search engine. I would say 99% of the time I can find what I need (just like with Google), and it's super useful with some of their integrations into stack overflow and related sites.

Regarding the results, after a few years, I found that it's not that DDG is worse then Google -- but it's that I was conditioned on how to optimize Google's results. I believe it's because no search engine uses natural language, instead it's language that we think is natural but our brains have optimized for the engine.

Once I came to that realization, I started optimizing my search for DDG just as I had done for Google.
> it is possible that such a conclusion [God exists] can be arrived at rationally ... starting from teleology [purposeful Universe] as an assumption.

I agree and indeed I did something like that: I built a model of God based on the assumptions that feedback exists and time is eventually transcended by humans or other sentients through technology or other means. I eventually discarded that model, but it was arrived at rationally.

> Because this is possible, you cannot rationally conclude that a person is irrational just because they believe in God.

I agree[1], however, I didn't do that. OP's father isn't irrational because he believes in God, he is irrational because he thinks God makes fake fossils. It's a concept of God so foolish as to disprove itself. If it were possible to mock God this would surely be the way to do it. The Flying Spaghetti Monster has more dignity.

[1] I am rational and I believe in God, so it would be hypocritical of me to claim that a person is irrational just because they believe in God.
ProPublica has a much, much wider brief, which should translate into why it receives $16 million in annual contributions. OTOH, I can't see how a site that covers a technology niche can support that level of ongoing contributions.
>There is plenty of evidence out there that points to something odd going on

Such as what? I don't believe there is.

>I came across an interesting and more rigorous set of studies done recently on how consciousness can influence quantum effects. They had observers try to influence the amount of interference generated by the double-slit experiment, and have repeatedly under various conditions gotten a significant effect. Perhaps most interesting is that while all humans had an effect, the meditators reliably outperformed the non-meditators. The setup is simple enough that it’s just begging for replication.

>Here’s the video link for any curious folks. Skip the first 5 minutes which is just a refresher on what the double slit experiment is:

>https://youtu.be/nRSBaq3vAeY

As you alluded to earlier in your post, this is complete quackery. It's been repeatedly demonstrated that quantum uncertainty has no relation to human (or any other) consciousness.

There's nothing to suggest that human (or dog or dolphin or octopus) consciousness is magical, supernatural, spiritual, metaphysical, or unable to be explained or understood.
First, note that you are conflating Kuhn's talk of theories with talk of disciplines. The introduction of quantum mechanics enhanced the explanatory power of physics; it also sent alternative theories, which proposed too many factors or more poorly explained the world, to the dustbin.

On that note, can physics be called a "mature science," then? To reconcile relativistic and quantum physics—both of which provide limited but very accurate and useful results—would be a paradigm shift; it would require the revision of large parts of one or both theories to be able to combine them without contradiction.

There are core ideas in each of these theories which are not simply revisable: they are connected with too many others. Peripheral ideas are malleable; the precise number of genes isn't very important if we can still explain protein variety (via alternative splicing and other modifications).
I thought this was going to be about the Kuhn vs. Popper argument, which is famous.[1] But he doesn't even mention Popper. Strange.

Read up on that if you're interested. It's much more significant than either Kordahl or Morris.

[1] https://principia-scientific.org/who-got-the-scientific-meth...
Have you met children?

Make messes of all sorts of shit (sometimes literal), and make noise, which carries multiple emotional and logistical concerns.
Squatters are defined as people who occupy building or land _without permission_. As soon as you give them permission to occupy, i.e. with a caretaker's employment contract, they are no longer a squatter, by definition.
Value can also be gathered through subscriptions.
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Quite the contrary, I actually feel reluctant to voice that I feel like he does, because in the liberal circles I hang out in, I tend to get judged for feeling like he does.
The timing couldn’t be better with a new, even more privacy focused, version of Safari shipping in tomorrow’s new macOS.
Way worse. Microsoft didn’t control the information people see.
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Damn, that sounds really useful. Any source? :)
Unfortunately Traveling Ruby stopped at Ruby 2.2.2, which is now end-of-lifed. Anyone know of plans to update it?
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It takes a while for ears to become accustomed to new types of music. If you aren't familiar with a style of music, one way to become familiar is to play it repeatedly in the background for a week or two. Then, when you sit down to deliberately try to understand it, your ears will already be accustomed to it, and certain passages will stand out. Those ones are the hooks that will get you into the style.

It works for any new style of music.
> Again.. rarely does an engineer create a product in a vacuum.

That may be rare, but that’s what people on our team did... multiple times. For my own part, for each of several products, I wrote the project charter, interviewed potential users and stakeholders, created UI comps, built the app (database, server side, front-end), managed the server VMs and infrastructure, negotiated and built 3rd party integrations (when necessary), wrote the documentation, gave the demos, supported users, and released updates for years afterwards based on feedback.

It wasn’t a culture thing as much as a necessity. We were a team of 10 with 3-5 projects in development at all times, and nearly 30 in maintenance/support after several years. And that on top of normal QA activities.

In retrospect, I think Margaret intentionally had us handling such breadth individually in order to set us up for success as much as possible (several of us she had hired straight out of college). I didn’t realize it at the time, but the QA team didn’t have to do all that stuff to begin with. The demand for it only began to really increase after we had released several projects that had a significant positive impact on the department.
A) Puking is not anywhere near as disgusting, and you could get equally disgusted by seeing someone peeing on someone else even in a nonsexual context (e.g. hazing).

B) Some people can feel elevated disgust towards portrayals of other people being sexual. In that case, the fact that it's sexual does make the difference, but it's still a disgust reaction.
> I think you intended to imply "without a prescription" in grouping such people with daytime cocaine users.

Actually reading the comment the driving point seems to be that there's less separating them than you might think--people on and off the street have legal and illegal uses for drugs, so perhaps the legal distinction isn't very useful at discerning the cause of homelessness.

In fact, the main differentiating symptom between legal and illegal drug use seems to be prison.
It is funny how people have wildly different experiences. I mainly use firefox on MacOS, use Safari and chrome daily, but a tenth as much. I find firefox to be the best in every way, except maybe battery where safari wins. But I don't even notice that.
Would you put your child in a daycare with less than the most stringent background check policy? Put your money in such a bank? Allow such a company’s employees into your home or the sensitive areas of your business? Sign off on a regulatory audit for a company that lets people who have been arrested hold admin credentials, keys to the server room, codes to the vault?

A lot of this shit is driven by popular demand. There’s a perception that rigorous background checks are foundatational if a corporation is to act responsibly.