skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you sure that your friends haven't searched for whatever FB suggested?

Absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, in several instances. Too many, at this point.

>> Perhaps not even the exact thing but something similar or associated (e.g. searched for dog treats, sees ads for dog beds)?

Definitely not. These things are often obscure, and many times, said in jest, and never repeated via texts, and certainly never looked up in a serious context.

>> Have you visited a place that sells that thing with location services enabled?

I keep all of my location services disabled by default. I do enough development to know that's a poor idea.

>> Do your friends express a lot of interest in the things advertised (posts, pictures, comments on any FB platform)?

No, again, I think it's that these things are often said or suggested in a joking manner that really throws my friends and I off a lot of the time.

>> Do you spend a decent amount of time with these friends? What about other people that use the same home/work networks that you do?

For sure. I spend a lot of time with a lot of my friends, and again, these things are observed by co-workers as well, our security is extremely tight at my office, so the idea that could be exploited in any way by something like Facebook is disturbing at best.

Frankly, the fact that you have to ask me these things alone is evidence enough as-is that there is an insane amount of intrusiveness going on.
The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool
Not that these things aren't replaceable/fixable, but the only two features keeping me on Facebook is 1) I have 2 active FB groups I would like to continue participating in and 2) I get most event invites from friends through FB events and would not want to be excluded/forgotten because I decided to delete my account.
Ahh, I had assumed the wires were only exposed at the same height, but protected at ground level. Maybe not?

I wonder if putting a bag over it is a lesser degree crime.
English is the business language of the world. I highly doubt there's some tech epicenter near Brussels that would rival Silicon Valley (or even New York City, Seattle, or Austin) if only those companies spoke English.

And sure being a Unicorn is everything, but it sure as hell isn't nothing. I have no doubt there there is a company in Europe doing something amazing, but Europe doesn't have a culture that continues to churn these companies out and I can't help but believe that their approach to regulation and taxation is apart of the problem.

They get so giddy about regulation that it's kinda baffling. Regulation should be thought of an unnecessary evil - not some exciting project.
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All wishful thinking. A self-driving car has no better brakes than an ordinary one. The problem statement says they run into the street too close to stop, so seeing them from further away is irrelevant. Lastly the whole issue is, should a self-driving car ever leave the roadway to preserve a life, precisely because it doesn't know if that could be worse.

This software choice, again, has already been made in existing self-driving vehicles. It remains to be seen if the choice holds up in court, since the first lawsuit will set a precedent for all others.
TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia from 2004-2011
It's even better - in Belgium you can avoid even the 3% gift tax by simply donating the money AND not dying within 3 years (if you do, however, the donation then gets taxed as if it were part of the inheritance, so it may be worth just paying the gift tax).
Re: This is just false. Standards compliant JS releases across the browsers have been extremely stable for years, there are no "JS gizmos" breaking because of browser releases.

For one the standards have many fuzzy areas in them and/or vendor-specific enhancements. JS widgets may purposely or accidentally rely on such grey areas. Second, being standards-compliant doesn't mean it doesn't have bugs.

As a thought experiment, if there were a decent standard multi-select-list widget (that doesn't require the Control key) in HTML or an equivalent, then it would likely be more stable than having to choose from 20 or so custom JS ones found on the web. This is because there would be roughly 20x more testing done on it because 20x more would be using it because we wouldn't need custom ones (or need them much less often).
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I never used FB very much, but comments on some sites I frequent are FB-hosted. As a result I don't comment, but in the last year whenever I look at them these comment sections are inevitably chock-filled with spam. Why does e.g. ESPN think they're getting something valuable out of that business relationship?
That was actually the reason I used it for example. There was a lot of discussion about political topics, even with uninformed people. I liked that - it was sometimes wasted effort, but it was partly done for the audience, to prevent people spreading bullshit everywhere.

Then Facebook stopped showing me those posts in the feed, and my "engagement" went rapidly to 0. I suspect they found out that people seeing only opinions similar to theirs spend more time in-app...
Interesting. Yeah I agree that it would make sense for the link to be clear.

Come to think of it, a couple of years ago there was this app called FaceApp which came out which used neural networks to modify selfies in funny ways (like making you older/younger/of the opposite sex).

I wonder if anyone has ever run a pornographic image with the "younger" filter in the app. Would that be illegal?
When I first moved to Palo Alto in 2014, I didn't have my own car so I used Uber several times a week for almost a year. I would have to estimate at least a third of my UberX rides were in Priuses, and a few of my drivers had talked about how they had financed their Prius through something related to Uber. Since 2017, I honestly can't remember the last time I had an UberX driver with a Prius -- it's almost always Honda Civics/Accords or similarly low-priced vehicles.

It also seemed in 2014-2015 that far more of my drivers seemed happier, more professional, and enthusiastic about talking how much money they made. Nowadays I rarely if ever have that conversation.
I’ve noticed that most young people don’t use Facebook until they graduate from college, become an adult and move away from home and want to keep in touch with people. Why use Facebook when your friendship circle is people you see every day?
Interesting stat from a blog post announcing uBiome has the world's largest microbiome dataset: "47% of our samples come from female users, 45% coming from male users, and 8% come from people who identify with non-binary gender."
>he publishes leaks which happen to be true.

How many anti-Kremlin leaks did he publish?

Also, are you saying that the Podesta email dump timing (few hours after the Access tape was released) was coincidental ... especially given that our intelligence agencies acknowledge that it was the Russians that hacked/phished Podesta's account?

Give me a break. WikiLeaks is either a Russian intelligence front or a willing patsy.
That's actually not the case - expenses related to earning your income are usually (with a few notable exceptions) deductible. Also, capital gains are a real thing, and you are taxed on realized gains - not the full amount you sold for.
I used to use it daily, but now basically do not interact with it at all. I left because a year ago I spent a week away from it, and when I logged back in it was insanely spammy and clingy with irrelevant "your friend liked this post" notifications that I literally couldn't turn off.

The unmutable spam in my inbox forced me to turn off all Facebook mail notifications, and the user-hostile behavior made me hate the platform and not want to come back to it, almost out of spite.

I'll bet these underhanded tactics performed great in A/B testing. But big picture, they should not be surprised that people are leaving in droves after deliberately degrading user experience.
This seems to be referencing the path to mainstream exposure for the infectious theory of Alzheimer's. Prior discussions (not the same link) on HN, posted for reference because they touch on the past research that was previously posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18306381 (this one's a comment I made associating the cortisol/Alz risk to the microbial Alz connection; it's nothing more than a hypothesis)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 (this is the parent link for the antiviral risk reduction study -- a good read, comments and source article)

There's a decent amount of reading when scholar-googling:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+alzheimers

Moir's paper specifically: the relationship between β-Amyloid and viruses in the brain:

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30526-9 (study link)

There's also research pointing to sleep's function as helping clear out plaques such as beta-amyloid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16026655

Finally, there's at least a bit of research pointing to boosted susceptibility of herpes viral infections when carrying ApoE4:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4

The novel conclusion from all of this, which I suspect is being actively investigated, is that there's a potentially complicated interplay of an enhanced viral infection (HSV/HHV enabled by ApoE4) + evolutionary defense going into overdrive (β-Amyloid) + (potentially) sleep deprivation keeping the body from clearing out the residue -> disease.

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I'm particularly motivated to track this research because of its prevalence in my family background and because, from what I can tell, I've thus far managed to avoid the environmental trigger-pull. I can already tell you I'll probably go on (val)acyclovir lifetime if I'm ever diagnosed with any particular strain, as it looks like active infection, with outbreaks, is what's likely to act as the first domino to tip.
That might say more about how well the laws were written.

It’s tricky to make campaign finance laws that don’t result in censorship. If the law would have prevented someone from making and distributing a documentary ... I believe it was a documentary critical of Hilary Clinton, which is interesting ... the law wasn’t well written and could easily be abused.
The problem is most people won't think of doing this, and bother to actually go to court.
I'm on an Android where the Facebook program came default. I've never logged into the site using my device, and I never will. But thanks to the way Alcatel, TracFone, and Facebook have it worked out, the best thing I can do is "Force Stop" and "Disable" the program rather than uninstall it and remove it from my device. It definitely makes me worried about logging into any website - even in "Incognito Mode", because it says to me that someone wants to know what I'm doing whether I like that or not.
You miss cloud foundry from Pivotal. It's capturing all the Fortune 100 customers. I'd venture to say it's approaching 100% market share on premise.
I'm always suspicious of stats like this. Is it cherry-picked? Does it mean what it sounds like it means? Do young users just delete-n-reinstall apps more often than older users? Is 44% higher than last year...?

All that said, I expect FB (the social media network, not the company) to peak and shrink, at some point. It just seems more like something that exists for a certain period of time.

Imagine a movie set in 2034. Do FB notifications ping the characters' AR lenses?

If you think of long-lived tech companies, they tend to have a very deep moat (oracle, msft, intel) and/or terrific execution ability (amazon, google, foxconn, apple). Facebook hasn't shown execution ability like that yet. Their moat isn't that deep.
This one wins the best name competition https://github.com/ghedo/quiche
Some states are “owner responsibility” states which means it doesn’t matter who is driving.

And going through red lights is dangerous. Wouldn’t it be better to stop doing it rather than come up with a way to outsmart the system?
There is another post about comparing subreddit growth https://blog.quillbot.com/subreddit-trends/. One could compare this to historical sales data.
But that's a lame argument: I don't expect iPad to be the primary device for posting, but you should be able to have a fine consuming experience in it.

It feels like running a 640x480 app on a 4k capable screen.

It's a joke that they would ignore what a crappy experience it is.
I deactivated my account a little over a year ago and it was a great decision...when I opened it the internet was a much friendlier place and full of promise, but it doesn’t feel that way anymore.
Thats an odd document. Cause of death: smoke inhalation; contributing factor, multiple stab wounds. Conclusion: suicide.
Yes, same here.

- Using Firefox with uBlock Origin

- Not logged in to Google (at least outside of Firefox's containers)

- Third-party cookies disabled + Cookie AutoDelete addon

They present me with 3-5 captchas every time
IBM's customers are the same as Microsoft's customers (at least the high profit ones). Very large enterprise companies locked into contracts worth millions and 100s of millions of dollars. They move slow like icebergs and carry as much weight.

They don't worry about new customers when the largest companies in the world have gone through months or years to get them as preferred tier one vendors.

Sears on the other hand did not serve large Enterprises and were generating revenue mostly from retail. Consumer vs. Enterprise is like Apples and Oranges guys.
I fear we set that up with the "outrage" culture to trigger clicks for ads. Nuance disappeared from most public conversation on online newspapers, and things started getting black and white.

It was downhill from there.
I sometimes think about debt the same way. In college I scraped by on ramen noodles and avoided doing anything that cost money. For example I wanted to go camping but didn't have say, $100 for a tent. If I had just put the $100 on my credit card, I'd probably have happy memories with friends, but now I can't get that experience back for any price.
If that's true, maybe we should stop relying so much on a single company like RedHat. Maybe we need to stop making so many distributions, and instead focus on the tools everybody use.
There are a few solutions much better than the old tech used by meshlab.
Specifically, fssr[0], which does a more advanced and especially sample-density-compensating variant of meshlab's poisson reconstruction, as well as instant meshes[1], which does generic retopo, and is able to handle point clouds, while still being _very_ fast and delivers surprisingly good low-poly results (see for yourself).

[0]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/fssr/index.en.jsp
[1]: https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
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Mid-level engineer looking to explore PenTesting. While I have a few years experience on the backend (and have dipped my toes into security), I'm quite frankly a noob, and would love it if you folks could recommend some good pentesting resources.
Local business owners hire local employees.
Only using the chat

I tried to have discussions but no one wants to discuss there views.

People are agreeing or are extremely against it
So you're saying that Internet radicalization happens across all age demographics?
Fyi - light goes to yellow for 3 seconds before going to red in all of EU and people don't die because of it. I'd say 5 seconds in US is unusually long.
Is there some one-click way to "bottle" web apps like this on demand? I'm thinking of something that does some light crawling, fills its cache up, shims xmlhttprequests for static data, and sandwiches it in a shell. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could always fall back on the real site when its cache falls through..
On the flip side, abuse exists, and wishing that anti-abuse measures went away does not acknowledge reality. Just like how I'm annoyed when I have to pay for a cup of coffee, but my annoyance doesn't really inform how things should be.

Besides, if a relatively simple puzzle is too much to ask, then maybe you didn't care all that much to begin with. I can think of various platforms where this would be a good filter even if there was no such thing as abuse. ;)
> Vulkan is good, but it doesn't affect compatibility

That's exactly what it does. DXVK is a compatibility layer that lets DirectX games run on top of vulkan with near-native performance with no work required of developers. It's about making Windows games run like native Linux games.
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> Discrimination aside, isn't the UK providing the favorable tax haven to begin with (Double Irish)

The Republic of Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom
Not really, not anymore.
No, that issue is unique to class/object property names. You can't dynamically reference a variable in a scope by name supplied by a variable in the same way (except by using `eval`, which does in fact cause minifiers and javascript engines to disable a bunch of optimizations in the scope it's used).
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This is not possible for all assets, but yes.
My home setup is a plain old Xubuntu installation; for browsing I'm running Firefox with uBlock Origin. Nothing fancy or too far out of the ordinary.

Lately I've experienced the same thing, often 3-4 rounds of captcha challenges, sometimes more. It's painful from UX standpoint and insulting as user. I've been trying to avoid any site that uses them, they're very user-hostile, but there's only so much you can avoid.
The German verb 'etwas türken' (~ to fake sth.) originates from The Turk mentioned in the article.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Türken_(Verb)
I think the charitable interpretation would be [0]: Conflation of economic value with non-leisure classification. That is, if it had economic value, then they should be able to make a living doing it. And doing an activity for a living could certainly be seen as an operating definition for "non-leisure activity".

So, by such definition, if everyone is free to run around and do whatever activity they want, then either every activity is economically valued and thereby non-leisure... Or everyone can somehow take part in leisurely activities without regard to making a living. Which could certainly be seen as an operation definition for "leisure-filled utopia".

[0] Not GP. This is me possibly putting words into GP's mouth, while also asserting that these are not my words.
> Your argument is seriously that it should not be ok for people who are in an embassy to engage in speech?

Speech directed at interfering in the politics of th receiving country (or, to a lesser extent, third countries), yes.

And it's not just my or ascorbic’s idea, it's fundamental to the entire premise of permitting the special privileges associated with embassies, and incorporated into the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

(Non-diplomatic personnel residing in an embassy for an extended period of time is itself something of a hack not really envisioned by the Convention.)

> Do you not see how absolutely ridiculous it is to criminalize political speech?

Not being allowed to remain in embassy is not a criminal sanction.
Facebook has a payment platform with various products.
This is fantastic, and revolutionary — redefines what a debugger / programming environment should be. Thanks for making it.

(I had a vague idea to do something similar for a specific program that has a reputation for being hard to debug (TeX); will definitely look to your code for inspiration.)

Have you looked at Python Tutor (http://www.pythontutor.com/)? That's another excellent project that has some overlap — e.g. you may look at its insertion sort example (go to http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html click on "Show example code and courses" and click on "Insertion sort"). If you have looked at it and can summarize the differences in approach between your project and that one, it would be highly useful.

Thanks for an inspiring project! This is so obviously the right way to do things that in hindsight it's a shame we're not already using it. :-)
Nearly three-quarters of Venice, Italy, flooded
The consolidation of news means less local news and a single point of view pushed to many markets.
Google’s reCaptcha v3 analyzes signals across pages to detect attackers
I'd guess consistency is more important than the absolute value.
I’ll guess it’s going to be worse: without a checkbox to check (the whole “frictionless experience” thing), I don’t see a way for the site to give you a challenge to prove you’re human if the script hasn’t loaded. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this means that you simply can’t use the site that requires reCAPTCHA v3 with uMatrix (or uBlock hard mode) turned on.
Honestly, the tech stack is the last thing I consider about a job--within reason. I wouldn't consider a job where the decision was to, say, move towards Flash, or something. But even that would be as much about the other things I care about as Flash specifically.

The most important parts of a job are the team you're working with and direct management you have and the kinds of problems you get to solve.

If those things are all good, the specific stack doesn't matter. You'll grow and develop as a technologist, and hopefully in a sustainable way. As long as the choice is defensible, I wouldn't care about it at all. If it's completely idiotic (like Flash would be today), then that says a lot about the quality of management and team you'll be working with.

On the face of it, it may not be a big deal. But one thing to be wary of is a bait and switch. If you were specifically hired to do something that was a big part of your decision to take the job, and then all of that goes away, that's a bit of a flag, regardless of how acceptable a legacy decision might be on its own.

I would try and figure out that piece of the puzzle: did the hiring manager manipulate you to get you to take the job? OR was this a decision that was still largely in progress and you're coming to grips with some slightly wishful thinking?

One of those is a legitimate problem. The other is possibly some excitement and enthusiasm that was a little misplaced.
>> oligarcies and plutocracies are bad
>> the pernicious effects of wealth snowball as generations pass

I feel like the exact situation that our country is in right now is the exact outcome I would fear from such a situation as you describe.
Similarly, many report that Dot-Net Web Forms development is usually quicker than MVC for in-house software (that doesn't need eye-candy) under normal circumstances[1], but developers don't want to use it because they are told it's "outdated" and it will rot their skill-set.

[1] As suggested earlier, if the MVC stack is well-managed this may not be the case, but the average company has average management, by definition.
> Who says the sites using CAPTCHA are also the sites that have an ad based monetization model?

> The other day I was logging into newegg to order something

Newegg uses ads.

> As an end user I do not want Google to track me across the web

Sure, and as a content provider, you might not want users who refuse to go through CAPTCHA. Nobody is forcing you to access the content.

> the side effect seems to be conveniently ignored, which hurts users.

It only hurts users that the content provider doesn't care about, because they don't generate any revenue.

Again, regardless of agreeing with this or not, it is clear that those are the economic incentives at play.
https://archive.fo/gBd5I
> that's not the demographic anyone wants as far as I know

On the contrary, that's the demographic everyone wants, older people have more money to spend. Of course, having only this demographic is not great long term, since the younger generations lead the way to adoption. But short term they'll continue to make money.