skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WRT doing business in the UK.

You need to understand that this is a highly unusual situation.

Part of the UK Parliamentary system is that there are "Select Committees"on MPs, whose job is to review and hold to account the performance of government bodies and departments. They may also review areas of national interest within their remit, and invite witnesses to give evidence to them.

For example, there have been significant problems with a rail timetable change recently, and the Transport Select Committee invited the heads of various rail companies to give evidence. You don't not turn up - an invitation from a select committee to give evidence has the same sort of weight as a court summons to give evidence.

So Zuck was invited to give evidence to the Digital Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee (DCMS), investigating the impact of Fake News on politics. Twice (at least). Both times he sent a minion.

DCMS then set up a Grand Committee hearing, with parliamentarians from a bunch of other countries (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore and UK), and invited Zuck. Again, no show.

So basically, since Zuck gave a whole bunch of governments the finger, the Uk government used its powers to collect relevant evidence.

I would suggest that unless you are
a) the CEO of a Unicorn, or
b) Currently suing a Unicorn and
c) that Unicorn is giving the finger to a government

You need have no fear of doing business in the UK
My mom was an ICU nurse for over 20 years, and yeah, the burnout is real. My mom always said that ICU is made up of a very small number of surgery recovery patients (who quickly get moved to a different section once they're past the critical part of their recovery), and the rest is people who are just there to die (especially here in Florida, where there are a large number of elderly).

She eventually had to switch to another position, because it became too much. She said she lost a lot of her empathy for the people who had spent 60-70 years abusing their bodies, and now were just here to slowly die under her care (regardless of how good that care was). She also hated that so many people were kept alive on machines long past the point of having any life left, just to keep the families happy. She said after a while, she could tell the difference... that whatever made a person a person (the soul or whatever you believe in) was gone, and all that was left was a pile of meat being kept "alive" by the machines.
I’m always sleep deprived (typing this up at 1:30am) but I’ll watch that tomorrow. Just wanted to say, as a chronically sleep derived person I typically feel like crap, everything aches. One day I got 9 hours of sleep and I felt amazing. No aching, total clarity, just felt like a new person. I’ll probably drop dead soon, off to bed now but will watch the video tomorrow! Thanks.
Every time free will comes up on HN these bizarre statements arise. Compatabilism is crap and even Dan Dennett perhaps the most famous compatabilist knows it. He often says "You have free will, it's just not what you think it is." This totally obfuscates the problem. Laypeople when thinking of free will imagine Libertarian Free Will which virtually no philosophers think actually exists but this is exactly the kind of free will that matters to people. All these arguments that folks like you make are just semantic and in my opinion meaningless. Its a simple fact that the type of free will that most people subjectively feel they have simply doesn't exist, everything else is word play. People are using two different definitions and only 1 really matters.
From earlier in the comment chain:

"and it's much easier to detect the neurological symptoms of this in a patient who is awake"

In this context, I imagine neurological symptoms would be things like cognitive function, spatial coordination, memory functions, and linguistic functions.

All of those are things that are not really possible to assess while sleeping, but would be possible to assess in a patient who is awake.
Totally tubular bruh
I use those features all the time. A lot of people do.
get a refund.
I like TechXplore.
> Pilots don't have to ensure continuity of care for their passengers, and can accomplish their work in reasonable chunks.

Are you aware that on long haul international flights pilots do in fact rotate who is actively "flying" the plane? Flying is in quotes because most of the work is done by automation these days. I won't draw any analogies between the autopilot doing much of the work for pilots and nurses doing it for doctors because I can't actually support the statement with any data.
You don't actually know my views or what I'd espouse, so I'm curious about your hostility here :)

My only point was that you may have better success railing against the conventional wisdom by providing an actual argument that it's wrong, not by ranting and raving about the existence of prevailing wisdom itself, and demanding that everyone provide a detailed proof every time they reference it.

You should check out the works of Milton Friedman, you might find them interesting!
You start with

> No

and then repeat what I said, stressing the fact that people are puppets in this scenario. Yes they are, and it doesn't matter, they will still do the exact same thing as if they weren't puppets. That's the point.

> without free will [...] there's no this or that result: just whatever is destined to be

So what? This line of code evaluates distance between two points and prints "Boom" if it's smaller than 10.0.

if (sqrt((x0-x1)*(x0-x1) + (y0-y1)*(y0-y1)) < 10.0)
printf("Boom");

Doesn't seem to need a free will to do all of that :)

> Which would make their morality meaningless. And so would the non-existence of free will.

No it wouldn't. Provide arguments if you think otherwise.
Facebook is the Data Controller, not the owner of the data
I used to work in hospital IT at a level 1 trauma center from 2004-2006. While I was there, an article was released which studied the relationship between time on shift and errors made by staff. As I recall (and it has been 10 years) the findings were:

* Through roughly 9 hours, the error rate was about the same. Say, x%

* In the 10th hour, the error rate increased. Say x + y%.

* In hours 11 and 12, the amount the error rate increase doubled the 10th hour's increase. So x + 2y%.

* In hours 13 and 14, the amount the error rate increase quadrupled the 10th hour's increase. So x + 4y%.

* In every subsequent hour studied, the error rate increase doubled again. x + 8y% in hour 15, x + 16y% in hour 16.

I want to say the study went to 18 hours, but I don't recall if it was 16 or 18 at this point. The paper made the recommendation that shift lengths should be limited to 10 hours maximum.

Every health care professional I spoke to about the article (resident doctors and nurses, maybe 10 overall, mostly in the ER) said the same three things:

1. They had personally witnessed someone make an error they could attribute to tiredness.

2. They themselves had never made a mistake due to tiredness.

3. They didn't want to change their schedule. Either they liked having 4 days off every week, or they thought it wasn't a significant problem.
"The second link is a NASA press release. (Why does NASA even have those?)"

Oo oo I know this one. They have those so that they can report discoveries about the nature of the universe to the taxpayers who are paying them to make those discoveries.
What strange is, I can see unlocking the car and even starting it with this attack -- but do the cars not continually (or at least every minute or two) revalidate the presence of the key?

Once they got very far away from the house, the car should shut off. Or so I would think.
The short version is that it is much easier to form complicated shapes in aluminum than stainless. Easier to form and more processes to do so.

On the materials side, When you connect dissimilar metals, their is a potential that forms between them (long topic). This drives redox reactions at the surfaces of the two metals, and the stable species depend on the pH of the water they are in. In this case the aluminum will preferentially dissolve into solution. If you must connect dissimilar metals, you want the surface area of the more Noble (i.e. SS) to be small, and the metal that corrodes large. This is because you actually care about current density (current/area) on the part that is corroding. Here you have a lot of surface area of stainless, which, in broad strokes, is probably not a good decision.
>"The vehicle will continue running in perpetuity until it runs out of gas or until you shut it down," he said.

>"They do that for safety so that if you lose the key fob or if it loses signal the vehicle doesn't shut down while you're driving, but that right there is part of the vulnerability."

Anecdata, a few years ago my wife had a Renault "Megane" that used a sort of "card" that worked with proximity.
She opened and started/drove it without ever taking the card out of her bag.

A couple of times I was driving it with her in the passenger seat, we arrived to a shop, she got down in front of the door and went into the shop while I was going to park it when the car some 20-30 mt away "locked itself" (cannot remember if it stopped or just didn't allow more than - say - 5 km per hour) with the display saying it couldn't find the card.

When she changed cars, her new Renault (using the same kind of card, at least visually, but a different car model) had to be inserted in a slot to allow the Start/Run button to operate.
Ask HN: Why Google is giving http://name suggestions?
I recently noticed that whenever I type a word and search Google is giving a website suggestion without ending, i.e. http://name Why Google is doing that? Any ideas?
"Keeping the safety drivers in the beginning, scaling up, and getting a year or more worth of actual real world use, before slowly scaling back the drivers is what I'd call a very responsible choice."

A whole year! Truly sage-like wisdom from the MoveFastBreakThings generation of technical development.

It is simultaneously comical, exasperating and sad to watch this tragedy unfold.

We will slowly build our own, modern Deuteronomy - instead of forbidding the consumption of shellfish or stipulating gifts for former slaves, ours will talk about agency and skin-in-the-game and aligned incentives ...

Meanwhile, there will be a multi year (decade ?) period of experimentation where we will all be terrified as we drive at highway speeds and another vehicle approaches that road at a right-angle. Currently, I know what that vehicle will do, because all other choices lead to death-of-driver.

But in this near (and short lived) future, that other vehicle could do anything.
As the other poster noted, this is not the only mechanism employed, which would be pretty silly. Among some of the others are, indeed, code reviews, static analysis and anomaly detection.

Another point worth noting about insider threats: overconfidence on the part of the attacker is frequently the defenders' friend. Metaphorically speaking, the crook knows about the camera over the door and will avoid showing their face to it, but didn't notice the other ones. And because they work there, they think they have a better handle on how things work than they actually do.
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> an invitation from a select committee to give evidence has the same sort of weight as a court summons to give evidence

It doesn't!

As you say yourself, one is a summons, the other is nothing more than an invitation to attend.
Wouldn’t it be even better to just use the existing low-tech solution to infertility: adoption? With so many children out there without loving families, fertility treatment seems kind of crass and narcissistic.
The real question is, can a moral person do more good by working at Facebook, or by refusing to work at Facebook? I would argue that Facebook is a bad actor and harmful to society, so the only people who should work at Facebook, morally speaking, are incompetent people who will damage the company.
I completely agree that it is hard to find things - and it is getting worse. If you search for a recipe for chicken soup, you now get a 20 page life history, filled with ads (ha ha) and finally a recipe can be as perfunctory as "cook chicken in water". This is click-bait-world. In my opinion this comes from intrusive advertising as the business model for the internet. (See Bruce Schneier).
"But artisans are complete only if they are also prospectors; and the organization that separates prospectors, merchants, and artisans already mutilates artisans in order to make 'workers' of them."

-- A Thousand Plateaus
As a software engineer, I spend comparable amounts of time writing my own code an reviewing other people's code. I think it's normal.

Unlike scientists in academia, I'm explicitly (and well) paid to do both; it's in my job description. If do a sloppy job reviewing, and let a bug through, I feel the heat because something breaks. And what I work on is likely much simpler than what scientists work on.
Some additional great resources related to hiring:

How to hire your first engineer - https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer...

Convincing Engineer to join your team and a basic structure for the process - https://blog.ycombinator.com/convincing-engineers-to-join-yo...

General thoughts about hiring - http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

The book "Who" gives a good idea about a good process. Hard to apply when you are not looking for a "generalist" - https://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194/

Some of the manager tools podcasts episodes - https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/hiring-0

Edit: formatting
I don't work at FB and wouldn't (nor do I even have an account), but even I can recognize that to many the benefits of FB outweigh the negatives. In a tech-centric board such as this one coupled with media/government-driven narratives to the contrary, it can appear to be obvious that there are way more negatives than positives, the world would be better w/out FB, and you should quit. But in a non-tech-environment the view is sometimes the complete opposite, and people just can't fathom why people want to use FB (as opposed to them being "forced" due to network effects and lack of alternatives).

This is a microcosm of our political environment where when one subjectively determines the weight of harm, they attempt to objectively apply it to others. Sure, FB does immoral things. But why can't we simply recognize that people disagree about whether harm exists, whether value exists, and what weights are applied to each? As you say, this is not clear good vs bad, this is some good vs some bad and at what levels.
If the museum waived the entry fees for users that opted into a having their info tracked and the data monetized there are probably people who would prefer to compensate the museum that way. It'd probably open up access to the museum to poorer people that couldn't afford the ticket. Heck, I'd probably do it. My contact info has almost certainly been collected already, so for me it's basically instant savings. Your main criticism is that the data collection is undisclosed. I'm sure there's debate to be had over whether Facebook was transparent about it's data collection, but they always did tell users about it in some capacity.

How much would Facebook cost if users has to pay cash? I think the Economist did a survey on this topic with Google search and the average price people were willing to pay was $1,500 a year. If Google switched from monetizing user data and advertising to charging money, how much human productivity would be lost because some people can't afford a good search engine? How much would this exacerbate academic difficulties of poorer student if we add the fact that their classmates can search online information more effectively because their parents can afford Google search?

The lack of tangibility of paying for products with personal data instead of money can be irksome, but it has created an unprecedented ability to build large, complex services while delivering them free of (monetary) cost to the end user.
I remember trying to sleep in between classes. Like, I would close my eyes and touch the wall in the hallway so that I could "sleep" while I was walking to my next class.
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"it’s often hard to see why LGBTQ content gets flagged as NSFW – although the underlying reason is, of course, homophobia and transphobia.*

I think you need to start with the impossible, define porn/nsfw.

Why is lingerie provacative and bikinis aren't? Why is nudity even a problem? Why nipples and not elbows... Ultimately, this stuff is the very definition of subjective... something that is entirely determined by perception. What is and isn't "safe for work" is constantly changing. Taboos allow dishonesty to continue.

Call it homophobia if you like, but I call the whole thing conservatism.

Personally, I think our rapidly changed attitudes about homophobia and transgenderism is closely related to sexual liberalism generally. Without online porn, gay culture could easily have stayed closeted.
I don't think you are. It is exceptionally well written and full of wit. Not all articles have to be like this, but in this case, this works and works wonderfully.
Isn't that just the 90-90 rule?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
That's a complete non-sequitur.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Hateful views have 'no place on our platforms'
We have an extensive unit test suite for React-Redux [0]. v6 passes that test suite, and the test suites for v5 and v6 are largely the same (minus tests that related to specific parts of the implementation, like the switch from old to new context).

We published beta releases and asked for feedback [1]. I honestly would really have liked more actual responses, but at this point we have no indication that there are any issues beyond what's expected from the known published breaking changes. At some point, you just gotta ship it :)

In the real world, people always use software in ways that you didn't anticipate. I'm pretty confident in the quality of this release, but I'm also realistic and know that it's quite possible there's some edge case that we weren't aware of. So, I'm just saying that if anyone sees issues, we'd like to know about them.

[0] https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/tree/9d50c2bd57642477...

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1083
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Nice post, guys.

Would you mind saying what you mean by 'lurking'? In all my life on the Internet, it's a positive thing when joining a community. You're invisible to everyone and just read. Why should people not do this? It seems harmless to be in read-only mode.
Ever since I started using Org Mode in the Android app "Orgzly" and in Visual Studio Code, I've been wishing a lot more was written so it could take advantage of Lisp.

Mostly because I'm selfish and want more of Org Mode's features supported in more places, but also I'm super impressed by Emacs' scripting/control abilities.

I'd also like to see vim with a mode specifically for Org Mode. But that sort of idea is very much beyond my talents :/
>>...they have to beat the market by 1% every year just to break even...

It's even worse than that.

1% ON TOP of inflation, which is reported as 1.9% but many financial experts say the actual figure is closer to 4% once goods such as energy and food are factored in.

So the hypothetical investor must make ~5% just to break even. Anything less is a loss of spending power. Add 4% to realized losses and the figures can be especially gloomy.
Yeah, it allows for unlocking without inserting a key or pressing a button.
It's impossible to 'anonymize' telemetry data. It's meaningless since it can be 'de-anonymized' usually within a few queries. Claiming that it's 'anonymized' is just a marketing word used by tech companies.
I was really bummed to see that the partnership only allowed you to subscribe to ProtonVPN at the full $10 per month price. It's $8 per month if you subscribe for a year and $4 per month if you get the Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal. I would love to support Mozilla this way, but I would also like to benefit from a 60% discount.
Except she's Laurie Penny who has been an extremely active anti-men writer for a long time. If they were expecting anything other than the worst hatchet job imaginable, then they didn't do even 5 minutes of research.

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/laurie-penny
McKesson, nation's sixth largest company, is moving corporate HQ from SF
I get your point - where does the distinction lie? At what point does responsibility shift? And I understand that you argue free will is necessary to make that distinction.

But you don't need free will to do that. You need a system of inputs that result in an output, with that output being the decision. It's still all a matter of causality. We've evolved in such a way that we want to stay alive, and that the vast majority of people value being alive over having a replaceable object. Or, I suppose in this example, their spouse being alive. Our collective morality is the result of that system of inputs.

If you get right down to it, it's a value judgment on life vs. property. Those values are shaped based off of our past.
You're right, thanks, I had thought it was the other way around.

That's a slightly different narrative to what I had in my head, but I'm not sure it matters a lot, since it's basically Apple & Google not being able to agree on what to do resulting in a split.
>The gravity from the positive mass galaxy attracts negative masses from all directions, and as the negative mass fluid comes nearer to the galaxy it in turn exerts a stronger repulsive force onto the galaxy that allows it to spin at higher speeds without flying apart.

I don't get this, seems contradictory.
I was also thinking of the Vorkosigan series, in which external technologically-assisted gestation and birth is a key liberatory technology.
Add time necessary to get to school when your commute isn't the best and it becomes even more fun.

I remember having to get up at 5:20 AM four days a week, to leave 20 minutes later to catch a bus at 5:58 AM to be get to high school in time for classes starting at 7:10 AM. And a teacher complaining to my parents that I often seem tired.
Every "dark" physics piece is essentially a science opinion piece, with "darkness" included in the title as the general prevailing clickbait advertising strategy, because the layperson interpretation is that it implies sinister mysteriousness.

It's never news, it's just a refresher listing of unknowns.
Qualcomm's plan for 5G Android phones in 2019:  what's coming
Remote job ideas for digital nomads
It is puzzling. My feeling is that for quite some time they had a lead on features (cross-platform, browser overlay, secret sharing) - particularly the combination of features whereas competitors always seemed to have a subset. That's what reluctantly kept me with them. The software quality does just seem quite bad though.
I use DDG out of principle but to be honest Google is still much better for the stuff I am searching.