skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some advice: Instead blaming this one actor, better get used to it.

I think you've nailed it with this bit, but you're not respecting the side effects of being an unsuspecting victim of their model.

Youth were the people who first adopted social media, and that was before our data was considered either sensitive or valuable. By the time we've realized that our content and behavior are being targeted, we have become hooked and addicted to social media. At the same time, we really shouldn't expect ourselves or others to understand the potential side-effects and consequences of this kind of collection. That would be a disservice to the ourselves and the public.
You're assuming that Clegg has expressed his true aims in public. Given his record of spectacular outright lies - such as the famous u-turn on tuition fees, or the way that he denied being a Young Conservative at Cambridge, in spite of the evidence - it's possible his affable victim-of-circumstance brand is just a cover for someone who is essentially manipulative and dishonest.

Given the successful spoiler/enabler role of the LibDems in UK politics, there's a good chance he doesn't think of his record as one of failure on any level.

Interesting, he has already deleted all of his tweets, including the anti-Brexit ones - not quite the action of the absolutely committed anti-Brexit campaigner he claimed to be.

(To say "FB wouldn't let him keep them" misses the point. Someone who was genuinely committed to stopping Brexit would never accept a job which might conflict with keeping them.)
I am wondering whether high levels of gamma waves are the result of so much meditation throughout their lives, or the other way around - maybe these meditators have higher levels of gamma waves to begin with and therefore they enjoy meditating more than normal people or they are able to meditate long hours without much effort.
That's not true and it sounds like you have self esteem issues. Everyone can contribute.

The problem with Facebook is that we want people to have meaningful friendships. You can only do that face to face.
They feel they can get away with it, they feel it will either be successful or will give ptsd to anyone who doesn't want to get with them.

It is truly a scorn upon society and makes our lives collectively worse. It is worse than cat calling.
> As long as those countries play fair.

And what a coincidence, the US decides what fair is. Bombing other countries and occupying them for their oil and other resources is totally fair.
Ask HN: How did you get rid of your allergies?
I‘ve had a mold allergy and a pollen allergy since I was a little kid. And i suffer from it very often.

It is often sad that this can be psychosomatic. Some people say that a repatriation therapy should help. But others have gotten rid of their allergies through food changes or other things.

What experience do you have in this field or can anyone scientifically explain why the above things cannot work?
I don't think there's anything in particular which is wrong with that at a micro scale, but at a macro scale when literally billions of people are being subtly influenced without realizing it by powers that may have no interest in the truth... I think there's a lot that can go wrong with that.

I believe it was in Myanmar where everyone uses facebook and started getting news from there and anti-Muslim voices spread messages of hate which tinged the entire nation against Muslims and caused acts of violence.

That's a lot more sinister than the mindless passing of time.
It definitely helps for physical attack vectors.
Agreed - I've interviewed candidates with no CS degree that outperformed ones from Harvard etc. In fact many of the best ones were self-taught...
>This sucked. What should I have done instead?

You should have read almost anything about ZFS before investing several hundred dollars and your data into it. It sucked for you, but seems like a reasonable ask.

I'm surprised you chose ZFS without knowing about it, it seems to be mentioned in every discussion about ZFS.
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
I really enjoy using a command-line interface instead of a graphical user interface, and was wondering if anyone had any solid recommendations for applications that one can use in a terminal window.
In a sense it's not inaccurate.

But if you have no filter, no ethos, decisions about what's allowed and distributed are prone to malice, prone to exploit or both.

Of course, Facebook has these things. But they go out the door the minute you have money to spend.
Heck it's probably a lower number than most people think too. Every always says 1 million or 10 million or something super ridiculous, but ~$500K/yr is life changing for most people and when you're looking at that over say ten years... you would be crazy to not sell out.
> it's possible his affable victim-of-circumstance brand is just a cover for someone who is essentially manipulative and dishonest

In that case, he has a long and productive career ahead at Facebook or perhaps at a company like British Petroleum.
But know it's the time to crucify Zuckerberg for what exatly?

Trump, and rightfully so.
I don't think this is borne out by the data on manufacturing output: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
> as long as those countries play fair

Which outsourcing destination has the same environmental and worker safety protections as the in the West?

A western factory polluting rivers and freely harming employees could compete quite well on the world stage.
Torvalds Says Open Source Is the Way to Combat Software Complexity
Important point here: groupthink can be functionally identical to conspiracy, even without explicit communication or coordination. There are a lot of people in media who hate Facebook because as a new medium it's killing their own business model. This creates a cognitive bias in which they'll be hyper-aware of anything bad about Facebook and oblivious to anything good, which is reflected in what they write. There are others in tech who have a similar bias. For example, anyone at Google probably hears lots of messages distinguishing between the two and portraying Google as the good twin. Then all of these factions feed on each others' signals that such views are virtuous. The net result is a massive piling-on equivalent to conspiracy, even though there isn't a literal one.
A lot of the data science community was pushing statistics minors with some other major (or vice versa) for a while. I know that field is generally a bit over-hyped from an employment perspective to begin with, but I think that makes a lot of sense.
To be fair, it has always been used to sell political agendas. Politicians have advertised in online platforms way before 2016.
I experience this pain also—I use comparatively cheap phones, currently a Samsung Galaxy J1 2016, and so the FastMail app is seldom running when I open it. Opening an email from a notification takes me 9–13 seconds in Australia, depending on various conditions. Partly in consequence but partly also due to my personality, I only use the app on my phone for the notifications (for which no startup is needed) or when I need access to my emails and am away from my laptop.

When we start using service workers, we’ll be able to load without any network round-trips, a quick measurement of which suggests about four seconds saved for me in Australia (high latency, remember—for people in the US, the saving will be closer to a second and a half), so the nine seconds is hopefully then down to about five, five that we can subsequently work on optimising more aggressively, once the biggest obstruction (the network) is removed.

But all of this will take time to make happen. In the mean time, thanks for recommending FastMail to people with the caveat: I agree wholeheartedly with you on it!
This is a false equivalency. The alternative is not an hour of work, but an hour of some form of either news browsing or social interaction.

If you think facebook does those poorly (I wont take a position on that now, though I certainly have opinions) you should focus the comparision on what you would consider better versions.
Or have to. They built up with a certain amount of support from the government in mind, then the government dropped the ball. The schools then increase because they have too. But that doesn't explain the rising costs of private colleges.

At the same time, as the father of a high school senior, you quickly find very few kids pay the sticker price.
“We’ll stop hacking you guys if you stop hacking us?”
Wow, that's awful! All the more reason to continue avoiding having anything to do with the IOT. Who would want to own household devices that keep secrets against you?
What are you trying to say? This doesn't even pass the laugh test.

You and Tiger Woods, golf, go! Good luck.
`select().event()` does not use `querySelector` directly under the hood, it filtering and routing all incoming events accordingly. So even if you change the elements, as long as they match the selector, they will be routed correctly.
Source: I recently rewrote the DOM driver :)
I thought piracy != theft?
Journey back in time with me to 1963, when that Sketchpad software to which I linked was unveiled. The same criticisms apply:

"The things this demo shows could have been typed up in text in seconds. Designers will use real design tools to create (rough) visual designs. Engineers will bring those visual designs to blueprints."

And yet half a century later, CAD is firmly in the domain of visual designers, where it seems so obvious that you would have to be crazy to think people would be designing in code. But hindsight is 20/20!

The way forward to visual programming might not be super clear, but we'll get there. If you don't think text-based REPL-style programming is limiting, I encourage you to check out Bret Victor's explorations of abstraction and direct manipulation. http://worrydream.com/
OT - anecdotally, I'm seeing an uptick in anti-China reporting. Are you feeling that too or is just me?

It almost feels like there is a concerted effort to confront China.

Now it could be that these articles are coming out organically from bottom to top. Meaning ordinary journalists are seeing the potential threat of China economically and technologically and are becoming more vocal about it.

Alternatively, it could be a top-down "agenda" to confront China and the media is gradually setting the zeitgeist to confront China.

What are your thoughts?
I agree. A lot of them come with a UNIX system, although there are others. I use some of the moreutils stuff. For email, I use Heirloom-mailx. For text editing, I use vim. For database I use SQLite. For typesetting I use TeX. For processing pictures I implemented my own package called Farbfeld Utilities. For making MOD/XM musics, I wrote AmigaMML which uses a text file rather than the GUI that many other programs do. Hopefully other people on here can mention even more, because I am interested in the answer too, and probably my answer is insufficient to the original asker anyways.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/procthread/...
The NY Times published about 10 articles on Facebook between November 14-16th. It was a like a coordinated blitz recently.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/business/media/facebook-a...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-crisi...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/facebook-defin...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/zuckerberg-fac...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/facebook-data-con...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/opinion/letters/facebook-...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/opinion/facebook-zuckerbe...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/business/dealbook/faceboo...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/opinion/facebook-mark-zuc...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/technology/facebook-democ...
I added the qualifier "little" for a reason. Unfortunately, you decided to misquote me and paint my views in more absolute terms.

The value you get from using Facebook comes at a cost, so you ought to offset that "incredible amount of value" you're talking about. Some people incur a huge cost, as they become addicted.
>It's fair for American businesses to distrust Chinese companies and distrust the Chinese government, but can't we all agree that they brought it on themselves?

And do you hold the same belief in reverse? That the Chinese have brought on this retaliation themselves? Your argument and assertion are pointless.
Also, you had to memorize everything. No search. You either knew the solution or you spent a lot of time looking at manuals.
When I worked in baseball concessions as a teenager, the employees who were the most responsible and dependable were the university students. The older workers tended to be more experienced, but some of them were a little sketchy and a couple were fired for showing up drunk.

There is a tremendous variation between individuals. Part of the point of the university degree as a credential is to identify those people who are responsible enough to complete the program. I graduated at the age of 21 and immediately became an Engineer in Training, working on code that could kill people if it behaved improperly. I took that responsibility very seriously, and I'm thankful that my employer and coworkers took me seriously in return.

I fear that a focus on age tends to lead to prejudice. If you just want to ensure young adults can be allowed to make mistakes without ruining their lives, I would encourage you to expand your goal. There are many adults who could benefit from a bit more compassion and forgiveness. We don't need to restrict it to the young.
Article is a massive pain to read without paragraphs.
No, that's not what he's saying- He is saying we should attempt to evaluate individuals without being biased by name recognition. There are poor students at Stanford and excellent students at <insert unknown school here>.
I understand your point but sometimes it is useful for authors to take a little artistic license. They are clear on the ratings of the problems and the challenges of setting for the world cup. To an extent, these are the hardest problems of their type in the world...because they are for the hardest climbing competition in the world.

Sure they aren't Silence, but most common folk would probably conflate 'problems for the world championship' with 'hardest' and to communicate to that audience the artistic license seems to me to have merit.
That's a good question. Someone else may be more qualified, but here's a start. For one thing, the answer will be a bit be different in marine vs. terrestrial ecosystems.

Nitrogen limitation is one common one, which can apply either on land or in the oceans in different areas. We're adding quite a lot of that to the environment too though, up to a 200% increase in reactive nitrogen availability over pre-Haber-Bosch times [1]; accordingly about half the nitrogen in your body may come from the Haber-Bosch process [2].

In the ocean, there are already a good number of places that are Fe limited (Fe is needed to make chlorophyll, among other things [3]), so they'll stay that way unless we go with Fe-fertilization or increase dust input [4].

Si limitation is another possibility in the oceans -- particularly for phytoplankton that make silica tests like diatoms [5] (though as an interesting aside, a surprising number of plants need silica to make their phytoliths [6])

On land, there's plenty of Fe and Si (from soil), so if we're supplying P, N, and CO2 then we're mostly left with water or light (photon) limitation.

If all nutrients are superabundant (particularly in aqueous settings), then we end up with runaway growth and eutrophication, which is dangerous in its own way [7]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_nitrogen_c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...
[3] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0190416840936323...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096706370...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolith
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrophication
Facebook is ‘the media.’ Newspapers, magazines and TV are just advertisements with enough other stuff in the middle to get you attention. Facebook is the same thing.
I can't imagine if you have that kind of money, you wouldn't have had a team of people calculating and rationalizing every scenario for the action taken.

The thing that bothers me is how universities keep raising the cost for students to have an education. Nothing seems to prevent it and everything seems like a joint effort in having the new generation be worse off by having no real spending power for years compared to the previous.
Actually, you can! There was a presentation at DEFCON this year (DEFCON 26) showing exactly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCE8spVX9Q

> "See for yourself first-hand as we give a live demonstration of the first ever full fax exploitation, leading to complete control over the entire device as well as the network, using nothing but a standard telephone line. "

Maybe it's time for you to find another tax preparer. Mine accepts encrypted documents with her public key.
So one of my favourite entrees (in the Australian sense of the word, not the American) is toasted focaccia with olive oil and balsamic vinegar to dip in it; I never made it often because focaccia is quite expensive here. You've just changed my world (and likely made me fat! I kid :P)
It’s funny how on many Show HN posts, the top comment is often “is it open source?”

Not to mention all the comments on articles about patent trolls.
It's not a fiction book you read for entertainment. Books of this nature are meant to be a reference and resource you continue using.
Yes the TI-99/4A was 16 bit, but it only had 256 bytes of (static) RAM connected to the CPU bus! The other 16k of DRAM was behind the video processor, so the CPU had to read/write it sequentially one byte at a time. There was't even a stack for the CPU.
Yes, I think so. Media too exaggerated
"IP" means a lot of things. A license to produce a chip is one thing, a mask for a particular design is another, and neither one will do much to help you design new x86 products. You can see some stuff in the mask, but it's looking at the chip through the wrong end of a telescope.

I don't know on what level AMD is cooperating with those folks, do you? And even if they did sell the top-level design details, that's not Intel's implementation.
IP isn't remotely valued proportional to its investment, and a lot of highly valued IP doesn't take such efforts to create. Indeed in some cases how could it, if the innovation requires a random walk through the design space? The first company that found it might have just gotten unlucky with a path that took decades of trial and error when a different path might have found it sooner or cheaper (but no one else was looking, or were on yet another path).

In thinking over IP reform (and avoiding getting upset about China stealing it) it'd be better to question the notion that the IP is centrally important rather than phrase things just in terms of rich vs non-rich people... A starting question: even if you know all the written details about X, can you still go make your own X? Following up, for the Xs you can, can you do it in a shorter time frame than someone who already has X can develop a better X' that keeps their ROI number positive?

The current top comment on this page posits that the answers to these for many international businesses were "sometimes, no":

> International companies in a rush to get access to the largest single market in the world have freely given away their IP, because they didn't think the Chinese could ever catch up.

I don't think this logic has changed, but instead international companies have stopped innovating as much, which allowed China to catch up. (The US did the same thing to Europe.) They want to rest on their laurels for longer instead of innovating more, and IP distribution (from sharing, theft, expiration, or otherwise) does put a timer on how long you can rest.
So, the purpose of granting patents is that companies will take the temporary protection and put their techniques into the public record, preventing the technological loss that occurs when the only people who know a secret accidentally die.

What's the idea behind legal protection for trade secrets?
Which company does not? Businesses are to make money, governments to make democracy.
But, because Debian has such a broad array of contributors, I'm extremely confident they won't drop x86 support unless/until basically everyone else in the world has already moved on, and quite possibly not even then.

Whereas Apple really could just up and drop x86 any day now, and I'll just be stuck.
For sure. Just look at all the american companies pumping oil out of Iraq:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq

Sure, Iraq exports more oil to China (21%) and India (20%) than it does to the US (13%).. but I'm sure that was somehow part of the conspiracy. So dont let that change your opinion.
AlphaGo engineers didn't really know how to configure Stockfish correctly.

The computer itself was strong. But the weird timing setup, the disabled databases (ie: both opening book AND endgame book was disabled. Stockfish normally plays PERFECTLY when the board is reduced to 6 pieces or less, as well as perfectly knows the winner / loser in every 6-piece setup. But that was disabled for the AlphaGo games)

Without the ability to run AlphaGo on our own and recreate the test, we have no way in knowing how AlphaGo would work under "fair" conditions.

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And btw: 1GB of RAM is a lulzy setup. You put all the CPU time you want, but gimping the RAM down to 1GB is... weird. Its a VERY suspect "test" that none of us can replicate.
Yes, exactly. There is an inherent and substantial lag between the time when 25,000 new job ‘capacity’ is added to the local labor market vs. when that capacity is filled.

Obviously, the mere presence of another employer seeking out highly skilled talent will have other effects, like raising wages and rent.

Like you, I don’t know whether this deal will be a net win or not. And I’m not suggesting Amazon has to bring in 25,000 new people for it to be a gain.

I’m just calling nonsense on the posts with impossibly optimistic math (“25k jobs x $150k/yr = $3.75B in new taxable income, so it’s obviously a win, Q.E.D.”).
> After serving his time

So there was nothing new to admit to, they already knew. Entirely different situation.
i think the low contrast in your Geoff.Greer.fm logo and the "go dark" button might be what GP is talking about. i didn't realize the button had words until i saw the hover state had opacity: 1
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The Wikipedia article you link even has a quote of an analyst saying this machine will establish the operating system for the home computer market.
Another World Chess Championship Draw – It’s Time for Caruana to Attack
With observables, they can be executed synchronously or asynchronously in JS, but it's a bit of a leaky abstraction when you have to be aware of the internals of particular stream operation to known whether it is synchronous or not, so to avoid unnecessary complexity you need to assume asynch behavior for all streams.