skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which country do you live in and specifically which "right to privacy" do you mean? Is there a law you're referring to?

For instance, in the US, the only right to privacy we truly have is in our own homes, with the blinds closed. If you are in your home standing in front of a window naked, I can legally take your pic as long as I'm on public property (street/sidewalk) and I'm not trespassing. There are other places where people have a "reasonable expectation of privacy," such as a restroom or changing room, etc.

> Corporations should have my permission in order to store, process and sell information about me.

Are you sure you haven't already given it to them? Most people don't read that fine print of the contracts, or terms of service, or privacy statements that they are signing or otherwise agreeing to, but it's generally in there how they will use your info.

If you use FB, have you read all of this? You agreed to it:
[1] https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
[2] https://www.facebook.com/policies
If you're going to another continent, you're going to see a big latency savings. If your going to another state, you're probably going to get lower latency on fiber. But really, a 60Hz frame is 33.3ms, and many online games advance their world state at 60Hz too, so it's easy to get up to 67 ms of latency just sitting still.
I don't work at Facebook and I don't have a Facebook profike. But my instinctive response was, "Oh that's interesting, I wonder if they have a paper I can read about it."
There's been four or five articles on Facebook posted today, most of which were NYT hit pieces. The comments are just mud slinging. It's not brave to call something evil over and over again with no one to rebuttable, and with no provided evidence. It's not the hacker way to berate any technology we don't agree with without considering the alternatives and positives of said technology. That's hacker amateur hour.
Yeah—too bad that wasn't the part you put in emphasis, and the part that you did put in emphasis is something you're claiming wasn't your criticism at all.
"Sitting on the jury, I felt willing to give up a little more of my personal privacy to make sure my fellow citizens are safe. Where to draw that line, though, is decidedly not black and white."

I suppose this is the exact kind of sentiment lawmakers and law enforcement want to tap into to justify their encroachment on civil rights. What scares me is the access to this personal information combined with the growing judicial mess of regulations, vague/irrational laws, and high legal costs.

Makes me grateful for the EFF and people like RMS who continue to fight the good fight against the world.
As far as I know, they still serve different purposes. The starlink antenna needs to see a large portion of the sky and needs to be stationary.
In addition to being a more practical solution than what the US has now, it's also just the civilised thing to do. Letting people die or lose their life's savings because they can't afford medical care is some dystopian shit. The very least a government can do is provide its citizens with acceptable medical care.

There is a lot of money in private practice and insurance who are prepared to campaign against reform, however.
That’s good to hear. I went to OSSM in the 90s and the legislature tried to defund it.
Wouldn't the first to raise wages get the pick of employees?
Defending facebook and criticising the cult-like herdishness of the "tech" crowd in here are two orthogonal things. one does not invalidate the other.
Please cite proof to back up the accusation leveled wrt Assange. That was all OP asked for, and instead you deflected.
It's baffling to me that so many smart people on this website don't understand how complex health insurance is or seem to think that people don't pay their bills because they don't like the prices
Go ahead and contest it then.
Citations please? We should deal in fact, not allegations.
Interesting failure case of Portrait mode background detection
You're the problem I'm taking about. You're comment isn't constructive or insightful. Your just bandwagoning the opinion of the day. You have no idea what the day to day inside of Facebook is like. You're also calling me our for dissenting against your dogmatic opinion because you could never conceive of any alternative than your personal view.
Gah. This is such a shitty thing.

"Sorry, the anesthesiologist was out of network, though everyone else in the hospital is in network"
Not to mention the other amazing work being done by the developer that it will help sponsor.
More like, the market loves fb-bashing articles. Some advertisers will be very happy.
> but there is just no way I'm doing a sleep study

Dude. If you even have the suspicion of having sleep apnea, please get yourself tested. I do not care what your reasons are. There is no way your reasons are more important than the increased risk of stroke and heart attack, among other chronic conditions. If you do have sleep apnea, your brain (and in fact, the whole body) is getting chronically deprived of oxygen, with all the ill effects this causes.

Do the sleep study. Nowadays you can do it at home with a small device, in the comfort of your own bed. No medication is involved.

If you do not find indications of sleep apnea, congratulations. But this is not something you can usually figure out on your own, unless it is very severe. The cognitive decline is gradual, any chronic effects take a long time to get noticed.

When you start using a *PAP machine, only then you figure out, as the brain fog is suddenly lifted and you realize how much you have been handicapped.
This does not reflect my experience. Besides, taking Ambien would show different brain waves than actual sleeps so it would make it less useful as well.
I went to high school in Tulsa, so allow me to clear up some misconceptions.

> Looking at the website, pretty obvious that they're not asking me to settle in a small town or a burnt-out husk of a city.

In reality Tulsa is somewhere in between a "small town" and a "burnt out husk of city".

> Despite my biases against Oklahoma, I get the sense that this is a pretty exciting place to be.

It is not.

Its main benefits are being cheap and not super cold.
I wouldn't like this to stop, it is always enjoyable to watch a mass hysteria, especially one that has little probability to resort t serious physical harm.
I wonder if it would be useful to start including political culture in these comparisons. They tend to focus on cost of housing and “quality of life” metrics like the existence of third wave coffee and cocktail bars. And yet, clearly, there’s more to decisions than that. So many people who are queer, minority, or allies, disgusted by Trump and those who vote for him, may deeply resent living in hostile environments. I’m not saying this as a political statement but genuinely trying to highlight a major factor in deciding where to relocate.

I can cite many anecdotes of folks who have tried living in different environments and fled due to (lack of) diversity and the political culture. These pitches and comparative analyses should give it due consideration.
Thank you so much for open sourcing the whole thing!
Sure it can. Those who sent like it sell to those who do, just like in the private market.
It does happen to a certain extent, compare basic food like rice and bread in a third world country to a developed one, for a lot of products the price is more a case of what the market more than it is cost of creation.
It's ok to care about privacy. But we're supposed to be above mud slinging and bandwagoning. Facebook isn't news, and we're not improving privacy by continually dragging down the people who are working to fix those issues.
You're serious right now? You think if Microsoft released Microsoft Linux tomorrow they wouldnt have brand recognition?

I know there's a lot of MS hate around here, but that's ridiculous. Literally everyone would know what Microsoft Linux was within a month. It would be a headline on every tech site across the internet.
One hopeful side effect of such laws would be reduced substanceless whining. Day after day is deja vu with these articles and the comment sections. This is not an indictment of HN as it's an accurate microcosm of opinion of the non-silent masses. Sadly, the whining would shift to non-compliance and non-enforcement as has occurred with GDPR and its predecessors.
Say you founded a company tomorrow which started rocketing on unicorn tracjectory, but wanted to do better.

What words or actions could you invoke that would allow it to be distinguished from what some previously friendly sounding companies said or did during their ascent?
Assange is simply not an honest broker which is his one job. Even if you think the Chelsea Manning leak was valuable, what exactly was Assange's value add?

The leaker was not protected. She was caught and prosecuted. The data was not protected. WikiLeaks was hacked and leaked all the raw data. The content was not shared in an objective way. Assange editorialized the content with his own opinions (ie Collateral Murder). His only contribution was to raise money to pay for hosting.

There's a reason why Ed Snowden didn't give his leaks to Assange.
At this point you have to be signed in to see it. See this comment for a screenshot and details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18460244
It seems this line is usually drawn based on political leanings by commenters, which is a poor way of drawing said line.
I'm not going to try to change your mind, was simply raising the point that it isn't as black and white as "HR is never your friend". I'm aware there are large swaths of companies where HR is simply there to protect the company, and certainly not your friend.

For what it's worth, being a cofounder of an HR tech startup I work closely with and know a lot of HR professionals, my fiance has an HR background, and our academic advisors we work with are doing some great research in the field. Many companies just don't partake in the newer emerging strategic HR practices yet and continue the stigma.
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A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog
> they are themselves bad actors and should be treated as such
How is leaking some provably true secrets about a political party to the public bad in any way in a democracy?
That means the machine has an airtight mask and could in principle suffocate you if it malfunctions.

One of the most popular masks is the ResMed Airfit P10.[1] This is a "nasal pillows mask". It is airtight, but only on your nose.

If the mask malfunctions or your nose clogs up, then instead of suffocating, you can open your mouth to breathe.

A full-face mask can presumably malfunction, even though it has a "failsafe" feature to let you breathe.

[1] https://www.resmed.com/us/en/consumer/products/masks/airfit-...
And for others in the photo, some of whom may not have an account, did FaceBook get their permission to generate meta data about them?
Highly recommend Homeworld Remastered too! Ah, the early 2000s were the days... No girl and nothin but time :)
I wouldn't have it any other way :)
> We need single payer healthcare for all emergency and 'standard' care (government gets a bid on rates from practitioners in the area, and if it doesn't like the rate, supports patients via the military systems).

Look at the other things the government bids on. Are they getting a good deal?

The theory is that the government has a lot of purchasing power and can use it to get a discount, but that's not what happens in practice.

Suppose there are two providers of a service in the area. There are 800 patients and each provider has to capacity to serve 500. If one bids a dollar and the other bids a million dollars, what happens? Both bids have to be accepted, because the first provider can't serve all the patients. Of course, the first provider knows this too, so they both bid a million dollars to begin with.

Compare this with what happens to individuals if we had price transparency: Both providers would rather have 500 customers than fewer, so they try to underbid each other to be the one that gets to fill their capacity. Moreover, individual patients may decide that a significant discount is worth a two hour drive to a neighboring region, so you get inter-region price competition as well. The government can't exactly get away with telling you to drive to the next state or suffer any of the other inconveniences price sensitive customers may prefer over higher prices, so they have to suffer the high bids.

Using the VA healthcare system as an escape hatch is little help because it's just trading one set of problems for another, e.g. the system is very bureaucratic and it can take months to get an appointment. If the government carries through on the threat then the voters would be unhappy and both the government politicians and the providers know that, so it's an idle threat.
Nice try, Facebook PR department.
It would be nice if I could upload audio and have it processed. I have a lot of videos that were captured on an iphone or something and would love a tool to help clean up the audio track before posting.
> On the other hand, my wife tells me I snore and randomly stop breathing

Snoring is "fine". There is some resistance, but it's likely you can still breathe sufficiently. The problem is when snoring stops.

By the way, my first sleep study was crap and I couldn't sleep and no conclusions were drawn.

The second was at home and I had a cpap machine waiting for me one day after I returned the results.

> If I felt I had an urgent problem I'd just deal with the study

By the time it's urgent you are already deep into other issues, such as high blood pressure. And now you have more than one issue to deal with. This is like the biological version of tech debt.
Yes, but the UN effectively say he's being detained, which I tend to agree with. It's like me standing there with a gun to your head saying if you take one more step, I'll shoot. Technically, you're "free to leave at any time," but that's not really the effective reality.

> February 2016 - A UN panel rules that Mr Assange has been "arbitrarily detained" by UK and Swedish authorities since 2010

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11949341
What if someone reveals the GPS coordinates of the FB eecutive offfices?

What if FB execs "checkin" every place they are?

Do they want this? No.

What if FB were to scan every single license plate that drove by their HQ campus and reported that to the authorities?

Would people want that?

Where is the line drawn?
Right, and if the FB audience was all hackers we'd be fine. But I honestly don't think that the average person can meaningfully consent to data collection like this any more. Unless you have deep technical knowledge it's not even slightly clear what you're giving up and what it means.
If I were only permitted to have opinions that are commonly held by everybody I know, I wouldn't be permitted any opinions at all.
Therapy. :)
Why is he a bad actor? Why should he be treated differently from other whistleblowers. AFAIK his leaks have had many good outcomes. I think there was a case or two where sensitive information could've been vetted better but to me he definitely looks like a net positive.
Honestly who cares? Using the same asinine reasoning means that NY will also lose all of that money of Amazon chooses another location.

Your state can compete or not. It’s a market and there’s 50 players. If having Amazon there is such a bad thing then nobody would be offering such deals.
Things like b-bit MinHash [Li, Konig, 2010]. A good summary of the problem with asymptotics and some lower bounds is Pagh, Stockel, Woodruff, 2014, "Is Min-Wise Hashing Optimal for Summarizing Set Intersection." There's been more recent work, but that's a good place to start.

These other techniques have lower space complexity than MinHash (or even HyperMinHash) but have the con that they lose the streaming and composability properties of MinHash. One of the main advantages of a MinHash (or HLL) sketch is that you can combine sketch(A) with sketch(B) to get sketch(A v B). Alternately, the data structures can be progressively updated as you see a stream of items. The other fingerprinting techniques often require storing auxiliary data during the generation process.
XXHash has made pretty decent inroads and is integrated into many products already, we use it for Geohashing at scale on Spark and can't fault it!
Honestly curious, since you are fine with this:

1) Are you married?

2) Do you have kids?

3) If you do have kids, are they in K-12 or are they older?

We all have our opinions and biases, but personally I'll be surprised that anyone with a family and younger kids and aware of where this leads would be in favor or even be OK with this.
One way I found helpful is to repeat or paraphrase what the other person had said in the conversation. At first I was surprised by how difficult this was. Then I realized it’s because I was just hearing the words but not processing them. This also signifies to the other person that you are understanding and engaging in the conversation.
We were initially unsure that we could achieve high accuracy with overhead cameras only. It's definitely not immediately obvious that it should be feasible, and we weren't convinced until we arrived at a working solution (and a working store!). Getting our action recognition models to high enough accuracy was a big part of the crux, which, not coincidentally, is an area where the literature isn't super mature yet.

Our system still makes mistakes, of course, but we're in the high 90's of accuracy, which is good enough economically to start deploying and getting real world users. And there's plenty of signal to squeeze out still.
If you can't pick good produce yourself, why do you put any stock in your evaluation of the produce they pick for you?

Seems those things would be based on the same skill.
Why not offer incentives to employers to create remote jobs? That’s really where the bottleneck is.
nice work Vin.
I’ve seen a few people on the internet who believe there are differences, but I’ve never met one in real life. And not for small sample size- the fact that there aren’t differences has always been a common topic of conversation in every social setting I’ve been in- my classrooms, workplaces, hanging out with friends, etc. It’s amounted to hundreds (thousands?) of people who know that there are not mental differences between sexes, and none who believe there are. Every family member, every girlfriend, every professor, every coworker, etc.

But none of been willing to explain to me why we know this; when I ask they think I’m trying to make a rhetorical argument that here are differences, and react poorly. I’ve stopped asking them.
You're supposed to do that _before_ you have a heart attack.
That link is broken - I think you mean this one, posted below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julia...

If a WP headline from 2013 saying "Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents" is the limits of that argument, then I think it's fair to say that is much weaker then any claim that "he is practically free to go". In addition, maybe he was free to go in 2013, but a lot has happened since then which may have led to more charges being possible.
“Are—are you with the Friends of Sleep?” she asks hoarsely.

“I told you, we’re from the govern—” Agent Jones begins, just as Agent Smith says, “Yes.”

Agent Jones clears his throat. “We are the Friends of the Lord of Sleep, and we’re from the government, and we’re here to help”, he explains.

“To help our Lord”, Agent Smith clarifies, “not you.”

(The Labyrinth Index, Charles Stross, 2018)
How about the ones that show the HC camp intended to actively support trump because they thought he would be the easiest candidate to beat?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clin...
> having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT.

No it didn't.
Yeah but that was a "mistake". Just as it was a "mistake" when NATO thought that the embassy was used as Serbia's military comm center. China stopped complaining after shown what NATO had on them.
It's like Anki but with a nicer UI, dynamic questions and progress tracking. Nice!
"We welcome and will assist in the implementation of regulation and oversight by an independent entity with the authority to sanction us, with penalties up to and including the dissolution of our company and pursuing company officers directly".

Very similar to the game theory experiment of having a piece of cake to cut: one person gets to cut, the other person gets to pick the piece they want. You have to handcuff yourself to doing the right thing. Your decisions about "being evil" then become easy; you simply can't pick those paths knowing you've locked in the consequences.
Oklahoma is ground zero for crazy severe weather. I think they turn the tornado sirens on at the start of spring and just leave them on until about mid summer.
215 (163 assists alone). 4 seasons over 200. Check out the insanity: https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/records/most-points-in-one-s...

(Unless you mean 212 season was best due to 92 (lol) goals)
(Jordan from Standard here)

We're delivering autonomous checkout to Amazon's competitors across the world. Amazon can only crush us if they crush the entire retail sector, which will be a tall order, especially with the slew of startups emerging to help defend retailers from Amazon's entry into the brick and mortar world.
>We're 5 years away from this shit being regulated away in Europe for good.

No doubt the EU governments themselves will not be beholden to such regulations.
"Make most of your money from something other than advertising."

But, that doesn't account for Amazon who have become (or were always?) evil in their own special ways.
It can't be worse than Fresno CA .. trust.
W trained the press not to ask hard questions and keep to the provided script.
Given that you get 6 hours of sleep and are not tired/foggy during the day I'd say it's unlikely you have sleep apnea.
Close but not quite. The exact ( back then ) secretary of state's expression was "Can't we just drone that guy". The context of this quote being dialog with her staff who had a hard time convincing her that it's a bad idea.
There is noise reduction(w/ templates) in Movie & it does a decent job. You can also try out audacity & gate noise below a certain threshold for crisper audio.
Interestingly the states with the lowest suicide rates (Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, New York, and other relatively wealthy blue states) also have some of the highest income inequality [1]. Another counterintuitive thing about suicide in the US is that demographics that tend to earn less (e.g. young people, Blacks) tens to commit suicide at lower rates than wealthy demographics (Whites, Asians, older people).

Pointing to income inequality as cause of a high suicide rate does not seem particularly convincing.

1. https://www.zippia.com/advice/states-highest-lowest-income-i...
The Portland area would dominate the aggregate because they have 80-90% of the population. I mean, how many in tech are going to move to Pendleton anyways? I’ve heard Bend is kind of hot these days, but went through during a forest fire and wasn’t impressed.

Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.
"(even areas where most effective practitioners tend to be women, like cooking.)"

Source?
[pdf] Detecting doctored videos by diffing motion
Yeah but then you’re living in Tulsa...

If the housing assistance wasn’t tied to a specific apartment complex I’d seriously consider it though.

Just relocated back to my home state of California and my wife and I are already planning to leave when the lease is up.
I think the only way to stay true to a well-meaning mission statement is to not go public, but that’s kind of a non-starter for most VC backed companies. And even if you do stay private for a long time, the death/departure/retirement of the founders would be likely to result in acquisition either by PE/a public company or preempt an IPO