skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sharing or not sharing data with another app is likewise not an unusual decision. FB is not a public utility - they can not work with other apps for any reason, or no reason at all. And this is a particularly ironic thing to point out, considering that the main thrust is complaining that they _did_ share data with other apps. So it's bad if they do share data, but also bad if they don't?

To me, this would be Facebook taking advantage of their stronghold on the market to continue to dominate the market.

Let's remember this is not Facebook's data, this is their users' data. It should be up to the User who they can share their data with, but they weren't given the choice to use their data with an app because Facebook decided they didn't like the way the other business competes with them in some aspect or how they aren't making money out of the third party app. An example is Facebook won't grant Influencer Marketing Companies access to their API even though the user (The Influencer) wants them to have the data so they can get paid based on the views, shares, comments, and likes of the posts they've been contracted for. User has a legit desire to share that data to the point where they will take screenshots, GDPR deletions, etc to fulfil the need for that data to be shared. Facebook's reason for not allowing them access is simple, they don't make any money out of the deal.

So if they refuse to allow you to share your data with people you want to share it with, that is bad. Sharing your data with companies you don't want to share with is also bad.
Actually, I more tend to agree with this article (https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-thi...) that a big part of the appeal of Tumblr was a bit more the opposite of this: Tumblr could act as a personal microblog of sorts, where you could put up a page that wasn't very easily discoverable, and share with a few friends interests and memes that you didn't want to necessarily broadcast to the world in full Facebook fashion. That includes people's porn stashes, as well as NSFW kinks and other quirks. Other stuff too (memes etc.), but the NSFW was a significant part of Tumblr.

Furthermore, my impression of Tumblr was that it had quite a bit of artists. Most artist-oriented platforms have policies that aim at banning the more overt commercial pornography, while allowing artistic nudity or erotica with appropriate tags (see DeviantArt, Vimeo, etc.) I was actually quite surprised that Tumblr didn't try this route at first to be honest. From what I can tell the "adult content ban" Tumblr implemented is way overly broad-based, not to mention very US-moral attitude centric (eg "female presenting nipples" is less of a big deal in many countries).
I could not agree more. Its scary this stuff is so common recently, much less here.
>Prove that "a universe without free will but behaviourally indistinguishable from one that features Compatibilism" is actually a coherent definition/non-empty set.

It being at all meaningful for me to do that relies Compatibilism having been proven to be correct. There's no evidence that this is the case.

>I honestly don't understand what confusion would lead you to make such a statement. Null hypotheses are simply not relevant to this sort of question. What populations are you comparing here exactly?

What? The null hypothesis is 100% relevant to this sort of question. The scientific null assumption is that something doesn't exist. If you are claiming it does, you're the one that needs to prove it.

>Because most people don't have the requisite knowledge to evaluate possibilities that require profound domain knowledge. Would you be similarly derisive if I referenced the medical consensus when wading through a health debate?

Philosophers do not have profound domain knowledge in determining how the universe actually works. Physicists do. The medical consensus question makes no sense because that is a false equivalency.
Is there any reason that keyfobs couldn't use 2.4 GHz (aside from cost)? Apple claims to be detecting if your Apple Watch is close enough to unlock your computer using Bluetooth at that frequency. Bluetooth LE also seems to claim battery life that is competitive.
Indeed, "Mostly functional" programming does not work: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2611829
>No shame in putting food on the table for your family.

Balderdash. Don't construct situations where people just shrug their shoulders and go along with morally inequitable because they're getting paid for it.

Besides, no one's throwing up their hands and saying "Gosh, I really messed up this time! I guess the only options left are working at Facebook or sucking dick under a bridge!"
> if bus goes only full nobody will use them

How can it be full if nobody is using it!?
No, in this case they're right: the rules are randomly applied depending on your mood. It's nice that people are starting to notice.

I don't think they were talking about editing titles. If it were something as mundane as that, no one would complain.
To me, articles like these are littered with logical fallacies. I truly wonder if the quoted scientists really meant what the article says.

For example:

"And if our measurements are random, there is no way for the photons to know ahead of time which orientation will be measured. So, there can’t be any hidden variable to determine the outcome. Whether we get the left or right shoe, or the left or right glove, the result is truly random."

The above assumes that the actual properties that lead to the specific measurements have to be communicated between particles. But there has been no research in finding out if these properties are truly encoded into the particles themselves. Maybe there are no hidden variables, and maybe there is no communication, but these properties are simply encoded into the light particles, by the way they are created.

"It’s spooky because entangled objects have a quantum connection, even if they are light-years apart."

Or maybe they don't, and the appropriate properties are encoded into the particles themselves.

"Of course, randomness isn’t the only thing necessary for free will."

Free will means the power to determine one's fate through a set of thoughts (logical or not). If there is actual randomness in the Universe, then there is random will, not free will.
>You would likely have to extend residency based on everything that you need to learn for a given specialty.

I would challenge that assumption because I don't believe there's any consistent number of hours worked by residents in rotation, is there? I mean there are published schedules and then there are actually the number of hours worked which at least according to the other posters is even more than scheduled. So if there's already an element of randomness here and different doctors are getting different numbers of in-rotation hours then it's plausible hours could be made consistent and reduced, isn't it?
>- Pocket, as a service being added to the default home/newtab page

Firefox now shows you ads on your home page by default. It's diabolical.

I trust a well-configured Chrome (and with that I mean using the options dialog, not the cryptic about:config) more than Firefox. Even after having a well configured about:config, they managed to remotely install the Mr. Robot advertisement addon on my computer. I freaked out when I saw it.

The Mozilla Corporation would do very well with a big change of leadership.
If you feed your family with your left hand, there is indeed shame.
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I feel like they just wandered into a crazy profitable business model and didn't know what to do?

Could you be more specific -- I never played TF2 for very long, and I know hats were basically a huge thing, but from what I understand they allowed people to make hats right? Did they like take all the profit from community made hats or something?

This must just be a controversy I didn't see because I don't play TF2
I use to use nightly, then I found out they spy on you a lot more if you use nightly. I suspect the same applies to developer edition.

[0] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxNoNightl...

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/ri4kny/you_probably_don_t_want_run_firef...
The law was followed to get access to these files. What are you talking about? Regardless of your agreement with the manner of procurement, nothing nefarious was done here. This is what happens when CEOs ignore governments.
I think this is not going far enough.

Do you work in the evil tech industry? You should die.
This is correct! it is also next on our to-do list! https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/tree/master/documents...
The Skytrain does in Vancouver.
“Greater Toronto Area” = GTA.

What a coincidence.

Jokes aside, this is bound to happen.

It’s disturbing that a vulnerability like this isn’t caught as a show-stopper before the technology is sold to consumers.
I would separate app config into ./config.json and then load it before rendering instead of putting everything in ./index.html.

SPA bundler would generate all files as usual. index.html would be versioned. Configs would not be versioned (except for config examples).
Logically, we should expect them to launch a Waymo Two service (or Zero!?) -- and so the relevant question is: what will be different about it?
A lot of the focus seems to be on making the browser easily extendable which is great, but can extensions interact with/modify the contents of web pages rather than the browser itself? I am not seeing it in a quick browse through the docs, and that is kind of the main point of most browser extensions.
Sometimes, even amidst the Brexit madness, I love our Parliament. Publishing and seizing documents like this is a move that proves politicians have the spine to look after people's interests. Time to get serious, act on this, and break up Facebook forever.
I didn't say that pkttyagent was the authorization mechanism. I said that the authorization mechanism fails open after pkttyagent abends. M. Poettering looked at it with a Desktop Bus monitor to inspect the transaction.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11026#issuecomment...
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Link to the (open access) paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/hoffma...
I don’t see a lot of evidence that elementary schools have started classes earlier as more households have relied on both parents working. I _have_ seen an increase in after-school programs to make up the gap between school letting out and parents getting off of work.

The battle to get up early is about as old as time. We aren’t that far removed from an agrarian-based economy, and farm work has always required very early rising (my father grew up raising dairy cows: he was fond of reminding us as children that the cows don’t care how tired you are).

“Early to bed and early to rise” is not a modern day mantra, but I fear we’ve kept the wake up call constant while continuing to push how long we stay up. I don’t know how to fix it: if your kid is in an after-school program until 6, comes home to eat dinner, and then still has to do homework... I don’t see how an early bedtime is even possible.
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Why are or why can advertisers be so inflexible with the concept of the internet containing nsfw content?
The point the GP is making is that it's the 2016 election (involving Trump) that is usually brought up (though not in this article) when it comes to filter bubbles as opposed to the 2012 election.
I remember a while ago there was an article posted here on HN that explained most ATMs are just FTPing txt files back and forth. The amount of fragile, weird systems that underpin our financial world seems deeper every day...
Do you know what a retail investor is? According to investopedia `What is a 'Retail Investor:
A retail investor, also known as an individual investor, is a non-professional investor who buys and sells securities, mutual funds or exchange traded funds (ETFs) through traditional or online brokerage firms or savings account'

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OF COURSE RETAIL INVESTORS ARE DUMB. Do you think most retail investors even read the most basic balance sheets? Know anything about security analysis/fundamental analysis? Know the difference between a bond and an equity? can define the efficient market hypothesis? could explain what an index fund is? tell me why bogle is famous?

I mean maybe not knowing these things maybe makes you a good investor because the conventional wisdom is wrong. I could believe that.

But retail investors don't have some sophisticated view of markets.

They 1. either go with their very biased gut 2. listen to cramer 3. listen to what their co-worker says.

Being dumb is basically the definition of being a retail investor. sometimes being dumb works. lots of people have made money buying 1. ponzi schemes 2. tulips 3. ponzi-coin.....but....making random spasmodic guesses does not always work.
Louis Wu - Ringworld, described as mixed race and of course aliens. The inhabitants of Ringworld (as seen in sequels) are also very diverse.
I created an account last week and had to have my registration verified by an existing user who also had wechat pay enabled.
The cleaners, cooks, and maintenance people really aren't the problem at Facebook.
I wonder how much of it is financially motivated in this way and how much is the inertia of this hazing-style culture. From what you've said, I'm sure hospitals would object to a change out of financial self-interest, but it seems the ingrained culture stops the issue from getting a big push to begin with.

I know labor unions (sometimes rightfully) get a bad rap, but it seems this is exactly the type of abuse they were designed to stop. There are some [0] but the rate is low, less than 15%, and there's a sort of self-censorship style of pressure against pushing harder for them.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/doctors...
That's how the DOC format in the 90s and early 00s worked. I was under the impression that the early formats for Word on DOS, Windows and Macintosh were all different and represented in-memory structures written directly to disk. Unfortunately, I can't find a citation, so I may be mistaken.
It's immutable in the sense that `<script src="https://assets.myapp.com/apps/1.0.2/main.js">` will always load the same resource whenever the page is loaded (especially if it's cached indefinitely).

Where as `<script src="./main.js">` could potentially load different versions of `main.js` depending on the release version.
>Checking out your competition is pretty standard among all businesses, as is buying out the ones you can't beat.

The fact that buying out competitors you can't beat is seen as 'standard' is the problem. When facing a competitor that you can't beat the standard should be: improve or die.
Improving mobile app user experiences with AI and location data
"White" as symbolizing purity or goodness and "black" for contamination or evil is used by a wide variety of cultures around the world, only a minority of which happens to consist primarily of people with un-melanined skin. If you think "whitelist" and "blacklist" is racist, just wait until you find out about Yin and Yang.
150k$ a year is rich in Vietnam maybe, but if you plan to stay in the west, you'd be upper middle class at most
A.I. = Almost Intelligent
As a counter-anecdote, we have to get our kids up by 7:30 to get them to their elementary school on time, and it's a battle every single morning. Left to their own devices, they would sleep to at least 8:30.

Kids are different, and we really don't have very good ways of dealing with that in some ways...
That's a statement that requires evidence and proof.

Market fundamentalists are so used to advancing arguments like this without being challenged that they have become almost completely divorced from the scientific method entirely.

Maybe being forced to share this kind of proprietary data, in this specific type of circumstance, will actually promote a more diverse marketplace with higher innovation. Maybe it won't.

Either way you don't just get to assert it.
D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers.

Rust had Mozilla backing early, and was fully open and transparent in terms of community feedback, and wasn't just making a language that had high level features, but was pioneering a new category of language that added tons of safety guarantees at compile time by default using a new paradigm of enforcing borrowing and ownership.

These safety guarantees are not just in regards to memory safety, but also in regards to data races.

D seems to allow memory safety guarantees, but not by default, and I believe it is enforced at runtime not compiletime.

So Rust was at once more accessible and more exciting.
What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency
> I knew about bitcoin only as an investment vehicle favored by several essentially sweet nerds close to my heart—and I knew, too, that cryptocurrencies are the pet untraceable funding model of the far-right.

The author really hasn't been paying attention if she failed to realize it is the pet funding model of drug dealers, ransomers, scammers, and money launderers, and only instead opted to use it to mock the political spectrum she doesn't agree with. This article is poor journalism at best.

I can't believe someone paid the author to go on this cruise and to write such shoddy work. I'm not a fan of the cryptocurrency space, but I had to stop reading this -- it was a Im-better-than-you hit piece to justify the paid trip.
Eh, not really. There are so many things that could've been done to a) prevent unfairness and b) prevent the situation altogether. This is like calling firefighters only after the whole building is on fire, and I'm not going to accept that as good, great nor even sufficient. The government is supposed to care about their citizens, all citizens are supposed to be equal, the government should be fair and money should not be thrown away - these principles are cut in stone for me.
That sounds like either something that didn't happen, or something legal that you are intentionally twisting to make sound equivalent to the (very illegal) things that are going on in North Carolina. Care to provide some evidence backing your claims?
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You forgot my favorite. In California (and probably other states), the building codes for apartment sound proofing are much weaker than for condos.

If you wanted to sleep, you shouldn’t have chosen to rent. Your landlord couldn’t be expected to pay $1000’s [1] extra to build your apartment, after all.

(1) https://www.remodelingexpense.com/costs/cost-soundproof-insu...
Would it be better if, instead of analytics, they flipped a coin?
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> So those measures can't be said to have dropped crime (since it could never be anything else).

That's redefining words to the extreme.

A rock has dropped because of gravity and lack of support. It doesn't matter that in this universe with the starting conditions as they are - the rock had to drop. It still dropped.

Homo sapiens (or whatever ancestor it was when it happened) - evolved to punish crimes. It lowered the crime, or had other beneficial effects on the population, that's why it was preserved by the evolution. It doesn't matter that it couldn't evolve in any different way given the starting conditions of the universe. It still happened.
What Python has, is really good support for procedural programming. You can write pure functions when it makes sense, and you can write side-effecting procedures wherever you want. You have a bag full of useful data structures, and an extensive standard library to hand. Python's biggest drawback for me is that it's what I'd call a "surprisingly typed" language. Values in Python are strongly typed, but we pretend they're not. Until, surprise! AttributeError! That thing isn't what you thought it was. Optional typing has started to help with that.
Do what Warren Buffet says:

Buffett specifically recommends them as a way to boost retirement savings. "Consistently buy an S&P 500 low-cost index fund," he told CNBC's On The Money. "I think it's the thing that makes the most sense practically all of the time."

Most likely in the long term a hedge fund is not going to beat it.
and it can thus certainly be considered an "elite field"

You are confusing theory with practice. In theory some field like investment banking could attract every single one of the smartest people, in practice that does not happen.

Doctors are considered an ‘elite field’ yet their are 950,000 active licensed physicians (ALPs) in the U.S. Lawyers are not nessisarily as presegious and cover 1.3 million jobs.

Sure, a top law firm, research hospital, etc can be selective. But, you don’t see even 1/5 of the smartest people enter any one field. Chess grand masters have higher IQ’s than the average population but that’s in large part because it’s a small group. Medicine, Science, Art, Law, Computers, etc all have very smart people at the top of the field, but the elite don’t represent the minimum. Even the professional world does not have a monopoly as you will find some people with 160+ IQ’s working in fast food or raft guides for various reasons.
That's fair, I suspected that people who knew more about this stuff had a reason.
That makes me wonder if a confidentiality agreement should ever include sharing that information with the government? Maybe NDAs from publicly traded companies should always exempt sharing with elected officials?
> Well... Steam launched with Half Life 2, and you had to install it and have an internet connection to play the game on the CD you just bought. And Steam didn't work for several days after HL2's launch, so everyone who bought the game day one was forced to wait for the Steam gatekeeper to let you into your own game (again, that was sitting in the physical box). And it was quite buggy for a long time, even though it did very little for the user. They eventually rewrote the entire thing as an embedded web app!

This has definitely colored my view of valve, thanks for sharing. I bought HL2 on CD (DVD?) to play counter strike and didn't remember this happening since I got it so late.

> Also besides the Half-Life IP, many of Valve's franchises are either takeovers of user-created mods (Team Fortress, Counter Strike, DotA 2), and now Artifact appears to be heavily "inspired" by hearthstone.

Maybe this is the difference -- they don't actively kill things that made them successful. I feel like I've seen things like that happen to other companies and they step in and ruin it/don't know how to just let the community be and let it grow.

> As for Steam for Linux, that was a contingency against the Windows Store when it was released. Valve recognized Microsoft could theoretically kick app and game stores off it's platform, leaving Valve with nothing.

While I'm not sure that windows store was ever a real competitor to steam I definitely see the point here. Glad they did it though!