skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those things are true, and I don't need them to be untrue to assign the largest share of responsibility to the thief.

Having laws (and the enforcement of laws) in place is something we believe to be the most effective input in causing the Bad Things to not happen. As such, having them and enforcing them is purely logical. We have decided that having someone "broken" in such a manner that these inputs are not enough to result in them not doing Bad Things need to be removed from the public, and do so.

Let's even step away from laws and assigning moral responsibility there. Let's look at interpersonal relationships.

I love my SO. I try to avoid doing things that hurt her, because seeing her hurt fundamentally makes me unhappy. It makes me unhappy enough that it outweighs the personal benefits of whatever decision I was making. We would all agree that not being shitty to your SO for personal gain is a morally correct choice, but this is still all a matter of causality. Either you have negative stimuli to it from something more direct, such as in my situation, or perhaps just because of social pressure and the desire to conform, but morality still comes into existence from the causal nature of reality. Free will is not necessary to explain it.
Because every webmail solution comes bundled with imap and smtp right.

Even then, you would still need to setup DNS (and potentially certificates if not LE).
This is the same process as with many other millennial-focused companies in SF.
What kind of hobbies are you potentially into? I'd start there. You could grab an acrylic paint set, a few brushes, a few canvases, and get to work painting. You could buy a guitar or mandolin or cello and play some music. Buy a road bike for a few hundred and hit the bike paths. Learn to make gourmet food or baked goods. There's a LOT of really fun and enriching hobbies that are fairly cheap/middle class and yet, your family would like the baked goods or the paintings of Rufus, your new loveable mutt dog.
By using a VPN :)
>Two factor authentication for cars, here we come!

in other words, requiring a button press.
The SecDB article [2], is very interesting!
> A more pertinent question is really why the question (of whether "free will" exists) is posed at all.

Good question. See my reply to this post for an answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608440
In which fields? Financial/Law firms are routinely scrutinized because they overwork their employees, just to name a few. Doctors, EMS personnel, Police, all work more than 40 hours. There may not be mandated work hours over 40, but the culture/workload creates that environment anyway.
Edwin Brady – Idris 2: Type-Driven Development of Idris
Why don't we have hardware overflow traps? Most numbers should never overflow. We would need just 1 additional bit for arithmetic instructions to indicate that overflows are fine in some cases.
The right kinda guy you want to hire as webdeveloper
Yeah this has been a thing for years in the UK. Myself and my wife put our keys into a metal lunch box in the hallway which mitigates this problem, which was prompted by both next door neighbours getting their cars broken into.
That is across all ages and I would guess that few here are seniors. At 35 the top 1% is $2.3m. So many here may be more wealthy than you realize.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-top-one-percent-net-wor...
I take the computational approach. Even if a system was computable in a finite time, if that time is too long, then effectively for all practical purposes the system is computationally intractable.

I find even the idea that we could one day compute the human brain completely preposterous. We can't even compute water flowing in a pipe today (I'm saying this as an effective non-expert who has dabbled a bit in computational physics).

So, if the philosophical basis is that "if we can deterministically compute something, it's deterministic" then human cognition at the moment is most indeterminate.

Free will or no free will, we really can't know the difference. So it's best to behave like you have a free will, and own your own actions as far as you can.

This is a slight modification to Pascal's gamble :)
Even with an 8 hour day plus a long commute, there are at least 14-15 hours a day left for you. If you aren't finding time in there to sleep, that's on you.
Yes, if they get a commission from what they sell you, they do not have fiduciary.
I assume the grocery stores back then were probably smaller and more centrally located.
Alibaba Takes on Amazon in European Cloud
You have a life-changing amount of money. I’d take this opportunity to educate yourself on the possibilities now open to you.

1. Take a million of that and move to a nice European city. You can buy a literal mansion in somewhere like Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Lisbon, Vienna. Comparatively, a million bucks will get you an average normal house in SF or NYC.

2. Take a million and put it toward your children's future education. Consider enrolling them in a better school and/or hiring private tutors.

3. What did you want to do as a child? Be an architect? Design video games? Whatever it is, you can now afford it. I highly suggest really taking the time to introspect and figure out what is meaningful to you in life.
You should because those are the metrics that actually matter. Everything else is just social clubs essentially. Which is a problem given sheer specialization.

Academics has been infamously cutthroat for a while now. The iron law is that anything which can be gamed for advantages will be.

The system needs updating so that what is gamed for is closer to the actual desired results. I suspect actual logic being incorporated into the judgements will be required which only makes things fuzzier. It is easier for more concrete fields to fall back on industries or failing that just numbers if it gets too theoretical like say maximizing energy extraction from a solar system.

You can prove that say Kant has fewer followers than Ayn Rand but that says nothing about philosophical merits.
It's actually exactly the same price, if you untick the "Anually" button on the ProtonVPN page.

Also, Mozilla actually audited ProtonVPN. I have no idea whether any other VPN have been audited by independent third-parties.
An idea that's been tickling me lately is that 'randomness', as perceived by people inside a system, is actually an avenue by which free will from some hypothetical meta-system might assert itself.

The actions causally derived from randomness in our universe seem random because we inside the system have no Informational view in to the meta-system in which they have some kind of causal logic, but the decision makes sense when you have access to that higher-order logic in the meta-system. The random state of some set of particles in someone's brain that makes them choose one action over another, could be a connective tissue by which the meta-'soul' asserts its control.

It's useless for any kind of pragmatic ethical effort, and really it's just pushing the problem up one level, but it's fun to think about.
Its true. But i still do them anyway since it makes me look busy when im not.
The origins are pretty clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness

However lately, those on one side of the political spectrum in America have co-opted it to paint the other side as overly sensitive/weak etc. muddying it's original intent, often using "concern trolling" to rile up debate.

Examples: Sexual harassment, blackface
I'm not talking about what's interesting or not in the universe.

I'm saying that compatibilism basically says that rocks too have free will. Which makes the term meaningless.

I mean, if you think about it, rocks too can suffer grinding due to their environment, having their shape, size or texture changed, which will affect what "choices" they'll make in the future and all rocks are unique in the universe due to their shape, composition and location.

So in regards to a "free will" discussion, the only difference between us and rocks is what? That we are living organisms and thus can move around? So is an amoeba.
Given all the awesome tech to come out of Facebook, I often wonder why their platform can be so hard to build against.

I want to like this move, but a platform is only as good as its API, and for years their API offers have been poor. The Cambridge Analytica scandal didn't exactly help in this regard.

This feels like a mixed message. One of wanting to be open, but also one of knowing that they can't allow access to personal data because they cannot (or will not) police its use. The cynic in me (and everyone else it seems) believes this is a regulation thing, and nothing to do with letting people build on their platform.
So they are being taken advantage of then.

Sounds like they should just legislate away the "Residency match system."
Star trek was interesting in this, you can see how creators tried for diversity as much as current norms at the time allowed.

In 60s, captain (aka main hero) had to be postercard white american, no way around it. TNG had a caucasian french captain (played by british actor, tells something about what creators thought about audience). DS9 had an african-american captain. Voyager a woman.
> Not to forget, C++ template meta-programming was discovered by accident.

yep, in 1993 some graybeard working on GCC checked files by last modification date to do some refactoring and saw one that hadn't changed since july 7, 1926, aptly called "alexandrescu.c". When he opened it, his computer started glowing yellow and his BSD prompt suddenly changed from '$' to '>'. He executed the testcase associated and the horror happened... a 666 kilobyte dump of template error was uploaded right into comp.lang.c++, which blew the poor hacker's 486DX away. Since then templates roam free again in our universe.

OR

when people say that it was discovered, it's that it was discovered during the process of designing templates and they found it nice, so they kept it.
Invest in the safest assets that you can think of.

If they pay 3% interest, you have a $240k salary for the rest of your life. 3% is a conservative estimate
> Its not uncommon for there to be freely usable bike racks on most city streets

Exactly. Specific places to put your bike. Not just a random spot on the sidewalk.
If you've ever done an onsite interview, you'd understand what a gruelling experience 6 hours of whiteboard problem solving really is. The worst part, of course, is that these exercises are completely irrelevant to the work most candidates will do on a day to day. That alone feels like a joke. Not to mention that you will be judged by people who also don't care about how well you balance a tree but are forced to anyway due to the archaic method of evaluating technical candidates.
Civil disobedience is one thing, corporate disobedience is another.
People have been saying that about Diaspora as well for nearly a decade.
To pick up the other kids on a long route.
Sounds like my experience growing up in a rural area. My high school was on the other side of our county, so I was the first person on the bus every morning, 60 minute ride each way.
With my car, as soon as you touch the door handle (with the keyfob in your pocket, or within a couple feet of the door) it unlocks, and to start the car you push a button. It doesn't work from even 4' away (eg, someone else touches the door handle while you're close) and it doesn't work from the other side (eg, when the keyfob close enough to driver's side door, the passenger side won't unlock).

The really nice feature is when you walk away (a few seconds after you're out of range), the doors automatically lock. However, the downside of this feature is my wife's car does not have it -- and so at least half of the time when I am driving it I forget and leave it unlocked in parking lots.
See https://superuser.com/a/706578/38062 .
Nothing new showed here. It's the same stuff which can done with firefox devtools for internet centuries. Just use Firefox because you don't want to have a Google bug watching you surfing ... don't you? ;)
U.K. Lawmakers Publish Seized Internal Facebook Emails Online
Facebook Allegedly Offered Advertisers Special Access to Users Data, Activities
Dyeing hair and choosing clothes are a matter of style preference, so why can't people think they don't like their style appearance on a scooter?

I agree it's weird but clearly as we see for cars, choice of vehicle is also driven by style preferences. E.g most people wouldn't buy a pink car with green polka dots.
Alternative possibility: given the simple, traceable, almost begging-to-be-caught nature of the malware, and that it so easily led researchers to a name and address of a potential author, perhaps its goal is actually to frame someone... to take out a rival hacker, revenge, lulz, ...?

Not saying it's what's actually happening here, but it's something that has crossed my mind before about malware - that it would be comparatively easy to lead one or more false trails to shift blame for whatever reason, and I wonder how many pieces of malware have actually managed to pull this off, and pinned the blame on an obvious target, e.g. Chinese government, "russian hackers", etc.
For those who don't know, a fiduciary is legally obligated to work in your best financial interests, so it's pretty important that your financial advisor is one.
I haven't found the smoking to be overwhelming here, but I also don't super mind it. I've never been a smoker, but I was in the high school debate community in the US which is littered with smokers.
I only use firefox. But I don't feel like I can strongly recommend it because of the long list of bad decisions.

- Google analytics baked into about:addons

- Sending data to Cliqz

- Pocket, as a service being added to the topbar

- Pocket, as a service being added to the default home/newtab page

- Firefox hello

- Completely banning unsigned addons

- Mr. Robot advert

- And now probably this

I want a browser that is reliable, high quality, respects my privacy, and nothing else. I don't want addons baked into it. I don't want to be spied on.
You sound similar to my family :) People keep asking us why we're not living in a big house or driving big cars. Why would I, I don't need it?

First, get financial advice. You want to make sure that you've got a pot for your kids and enough set aside that you don't have to work.

Then have a look at what you want to do. What makes you happy? I'm freelancing; this year I worked half a year because I don't need the money. Spent the last week building a "food forest" at our local primary school, it was the most fun I've had in years.

Personally I'd put at least some of my money towards combating climate change; but I see that as an investment in the future of my kids (and hopefully grandchildren). I also would not stop working; I would just work less and on my own terms.
HN is very US centric. In the US state politics are almost always dominated by one or a couple of cities. And the generally dominate in a ways that results in rural and suburban folk are basically told to screw off if they don't like it. The reason people come out of the woodwork to scream "but what about rural areas" is that the fear is that cities will get policies enacted at the state level that make it more expensive to own/operate a vehicle statewide rather than improve alternatives (costs money, whereas taxing cars makes money) or just raise costs in the city.

Basically people are worried about a lead balloon like NY-SAFE but for cars.

I'd be perfectly fine if the major city in my state made it more expensive to use a car in the city so long as there was an proportional increase in the quantity of park and ride lots at the ends of the rail network and reliability of that rail service. What would happen in reality is that they'd just raise the cost, the parking garages would all be full at 6am instead of 7am and the rail network would be even worse because it would be handling more volume and the money made would be used on pork and graft. Nobody's quality of life would be improved save politicians who suddenly have more money to spend on salaried government jobs they can appoint the friends/relatives of people they want on their side to and the people appointed to those jobs.
U.K. Lawmakers Document Summarizing Facebook’s Seized Internal Facebook Emails [pdf]
It's almost as if giving users options and letting them opt out of things is the way to go. Who would have guessed.
My wife's background is in childhood development. Her job involves keeping up with studies in the field. I remember her talking about this issue. There's evidence that school start times should be flipped for elementary and high school students: elementary going in earlier and high school later. Teenagers need more sleep due to their brains re-wiring, so the reasoning goes.

Keep in mind that in our school district, elementary school students need to be in by 8:40 while high school students need to be in by 7:50.

Our neighborhood is setup for walking. The elementary school is a six block walk, so most people walk their kids to school. My daughter didn't sleep past 7:00 for most of elementary school. Our experience was that elementary really could have started closer to 8:00.

I'm with you on all your other points. But, I think our experience was significantly different for elementary school.
"it was a closed shop run by one guy"

You do realize Walter Bright is a frequent HN resident :) ?
That's the logical tradeoff for any company. Bad hires create an incredible amount of damage that can sink a whole team. It is x10 better to have no hire than a bad one.
It is allowed to park a car, it is not allowed to take somebody else's car.

If it was a place where you can't park, and a police took your car - it would be your fault, not theirs. It doesn't depend on the free will, it just depends on the laws.

And the laws are what they are because of practical concerns and not free will.

Notice that if you left your TV on a parking lot for a week - and accused people who got it of theft - you would be ignored. But with car it's a theft :) It's all about agreed customs that work reasonably well for the socity, not some platonic ideals.
Why do we have parking spots but no scooter spots or bike spots?
(According to local news articles) It's a 90,000 sqft building, in a small village with zero alternative transportation. 200 parking spaces is actually a conservative low requirement, all things considered.

The building, if some day fully occupied, would have over 400 employees daily in it. In my city, they'd probably push closer to 450+ employees into there.
What are you trying to tell me? Banned from HN? Why are you reading me then?
It's very snappy to open if you run it as a server. Defining an alias for 'emacsclient -a= -c' was enough for me. It will boot Emacs if it's not already running, but otherwise, you immediately get a new frame hooked up to the running instance. You can also run Emacs as a systemd user service, to spare even that first delay.

You do have to get into the habit of exiting by closing the buffer or the frame instead of quitting Emacs.
we go through exorcism ritual with our code once a week. still it isn't cured of the devil defects. :)
> In 60s, captain (aka main hero) had to be postercard white american, no way around it.

And indeed, it is even stated at one time (albeit possibly by an unreliable character) that women _could not be Starfleet captains_.
a million dollars will barely buy you an average home in NYC - unless of course you call a 700sft 1 bedroom average.
When my teen years grew tough for my single mom to handle she often accused me of being possessed. She was very emotionally unstable, so when things got rough for either of us, things went to utter shit. Her last resort was to carry around her bible and ask God to bless every corner of the home.

Later, one of my first boyfriends said something similar-- except I was now the demon. At one point he said I was "the demon at the center of the universe, which spawned all other demons". Of course this all occurred when we were fighting.

Anyways, my point is that I think you're correct. It's a last-resort coping mechanism. Very harmful. I'm still trying to figure out whether or not I'm actually human or some kind of universal mistake.
There are multiple extensions and VPN products out there (some better and some worse), so why are they choosing who wins or loses here. I know it is because of $, but I hate the direction they have been taking lately.
Show HN: Tcl parser for the Eno notation language
A lot of elementary schools start early because of parent pressure to start early, because parents need to get their kids to school so they can get to work themselves.

We are lucky that our school district provides before and after school programs since my daughter's elementary school doesn't start until after 9:00 AM.
Show HN: Terracotta, a light-weight XYZ tile server in Python
It would be great if someone knowledgeable compared these contenders for about the same space "close to metal":

* Rust;
* D;
* Ada/Spark;
* Zig;

using C and C++ as reference points.

(I also wonder if ATS-lang is used by anyone in practice; it seems to be targeted approximately at the same space.)
Summary

1. White Lists

Facebook have clearly entered into whitelisting agreements with certain companies, which meant that after the platform changes in 2014/15 they maintained full access to friends data. It is not clear that there was any user consent for this, nor how Facebook decided which companies should be whitelisted or not.

2. Value of friends data

It is clear that increasing revenues from major app developers was one of the key drivers behind the Platform 3.0 changes at Facebook. The idea of linking access to friends data to the financial value of the developers relationship with Facebook is a recurring feature of the documents.

3. Reciprocity

Data reciprocity between Facebook and app developers was a central feature in the discussions about the launch of Platform 3.0.

4. Android

Facebook knew that the changes to its policies on the Android mobile phone system, which enabled the Facebook app to collect a record of calls and texts sent by the user would be controversial. To mitigate any bad PR, Facebook planned to make it as hard of possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of their app.

5. Onavo

Facebook used Onavo to conduct global surveys of the usage of mobile apps by customers, and apparently without their knowledge. They used this data to assess not just how many people had downloaded apps, but how often they used them. This knowledge helped them to decide which companies to acquire, and which to treat as a threat.

6. Targeting competitor Apps

The files show evidence of Facebook taking aggressive positions against apps, with the consequence that denying them access to data led to the failure of that business.
So worlds fastest is a big claim.
- How is it in comparison to a tmpfs on ram ?
- How is it in in comparison to ufs/ffs or ext2
- Is it the fastest with some feature ?
- Is it portable ?
- Is it clusterable , on disk or over the network ?
- What is it's target operating system ?
- What is it's target market , SAN, NAS, Local Storage, etc ?
Apparently not, since the opening comment complains about an optional VPN offering and a service integration you can turn off.
Inspired by Mapbox' rio-tiler [1], we wanted to build a modern tile server on the Python geo-stack that is optimized for AWS λ deployments (and that makes it beyond the proof-of-concept stage).

The result is Terracotta, and I'm really happy with it, so I thought HN might appreciate it, too. Cold start times on AWS λ are as bad as expected, but once you got a sufficient number of instances running, it actually performs really well (mostly because loading a tile cover is so embarrassingly parallel).

Besides that, Zappa [2] does a great job at taking the pain out of the AWS λ deployments and dependency management, so if you don't know that project yet I'd highly recommend you check it out.

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/rio-tiler

[2] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa