skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Likely" is a strong word there. For most organizations, I'd go with "might have." But yes, that's true.

Still, "Facebook tells you which ad someone clicked on, and that can give you some demographic information, and if you can at some later point determine that person's identity you can connect the two" is a very different thing from "Facebook sells your data."
can't and won't are effectively the same thing in this context; you're picking nits about free will.

Yes, of course everyone can always leave. The only price - for more than a few of those 2 billion - is the complete disruption of their social lives. Telling someone they can never see cute pics of their lil cousin again is punishment, not a serious decision about consumer responsibility.

You can tell because a history of malfeasance and yet, 2 billion active users.
We syndicate our content in a different way: https://developer.api.nhs.uk/
Seems unlikely. Almost all of those examples are things you can do without Internet access at all, using phone or snail mail. (The one exception is running an online business, but AFAIK that is not specifically constitutionally protected.)

You can also get Internet access through other means, even if it's less convenient and/or more expensive. There might be a government-sanctioned monopoly on cable, but at least around here, there's also DSL, satellite, cellular data, dial-up, and even third-party fiber. Granted, not every place has all those options, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a place in the US where you can't access at least one.
Author here— Yes, this is a great question! I think there's a lot more interesting work to be done here. It would be great if we could understand e.g. why layer-wise learning rates help with large-batch training of ImageNet (https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03888), and maybe the per-component noise scale has something to do with it.
I wash my nose in such a way frequently because I have an extreme sensitivity to airborne chemicals and fragrances. It’s so uncomfortable to be doused with air freshener, diesel exhaust, cleaner fumes, laundry fragrance, plastic odor or perfume that I rinse my nose out with whatever water is available, which includes taps and drinking fountains. I’ve worried about such an illness happening to me, evidently with good reason.
Wasn’t there a point in time that fb wanted users to submit their nude photos so that they could better detect fake profiles ? Lol
Didn't Uber's self-driving car hit and kill a jaywalker?
NYC's Subway Passes $17B Budget as Agency Approaches 'A Precipice'
There is Vectr too
> This way people can live closer to work and not have to drive cars.

How will they get to work? How will they get to other places?

Seems pretty unrealistic to think that a large number of people will be able to arrange their lives to not need a car at all. And Minneapolis winters? Forget walking/biking unless you like frostbite.

Even if there's good mass transit, that doesn't go everywhere, all the time.

I can imagine living in a situation where I didn't need a car for my daily trip to work. I've done it in Chicago. But I can't imagine not having a car at all. It would just be too inconvenient. And if I own a car, I need to be able to park it somewhere. And if that arrangement is too expensive or impossible downtown, I will live in the suburbs.
The skills are probably still worth teaching. Many professions could really benefit from some Swiss army computer skills (and it's not always obvious which pairings are good). Biology, for example, really could use some solid database skills. I have seen million-line barely manageable Excel documents that were born to be an SQL database. Makes me cry.
Fusion scales incredibly well. For a given working reactor design, efficiency increases with size. I think viable working fusion would lead to a more interconnected grid because of this as opposed to smallscale fusion reactors being deployed in semi-remote areas. On the other hand truly difficult to reach places would be perfect for fusion as once it's built it takes very little fuel to run.
> It's much harder to generate different global values for $primaryColor and related in scss for different deployment targets.

Much harder? The tools are often one and the same. I use webpack to bundle my JS and CSS. Configuring a different SCSS entry point based on deployment target isn't strategically different from changing a JS entry point in webpack. If I'm using SCSS imports in my JS entry point (and configured the webpack loaders to do their magic for me), it's exactly the same effort. I've even got one project that injects its theming dynamically with a runtime import(…) and webpack just does its usual thing when bundling that dynamic import.
Based on what article?
Going to play the devil’s advocate. If you fine Facebook, you have to fine the small companies too, and even individual developers developing OSS, since the law should apply to everyone equally. Of course the fines have to be proportional to the number of affected users.

So would you like a fine for your bugs? And note that contrary to other professions, software development doesn’t have generally agreed recipes for building bug-free software, so was that really negligence? Was it malpractice?

Being fined for a contribution to an OSS project would be terrible, wouldn’t it? And no, the size of the company doesn’t and shouldn’t matter in the eyes of the law, only the impact.

Also people uploading stuff on the Internet should really expect a best effort privacy. If you expect secrecy, then uploading shit on a platform meant for sharing is pretty dumb.

Note that I will blame Facebook for willful privacy violations. And I hope to see them suffer under GDPR. But a bug doesn’t fall in the same category.
I had surgery on my sinuses and and have to do this as well. The product I use (Neilmed sinus rinse) has warnings ALL OVER the box, bottle, and in the instruction pamphlet to only use previously boiled water, distilled water, freshly opened bottled water, or water that has somehow otherwise been filtered. It specifically says NOT to use tap water. They also have a website (that has recently been updated to mention this news article, but otherwise has the same information as it had over a year ago when I last checked) telling you not to use tap water: http://www.neilmed.com/usa/np_water_quality.php

Usually I would say that it's unreasonable to expect consumers to read the fine print, but this is a medical product, so at a minimum I would expect everyone using it to read the instruction pamphlet included in the box. It's not just "put water in bottle, squeeze bottle" either, so if you don't read the instructions you'll be very uncomfortable to the point of probably not using it any more (you have to heat the water to a specific temperature and mix in the included salt packets, and the instructions also tell you how to clean the bottle).

I'm sorry for this woman's family, but this is really darwinism (edit: not actually darwinism. I was using that as a figure of speech) at work. It's not even expensive to use distilled water, I get a gallon from walmart for less than a dollar and it lasts me multiple weeks (and I use it twice a day).
A site where everybody is invited to submit content anonymously but it's heavily censored & moderated becomes a mouthpiece for the moderators. It's basically Yelp, or the Op-Ed section of a newspaper.
Ya, could be.

Though hanlon's razor makes me think this was more them not thinking things all the way through than a devious plan to get a bunch of signups without ever launching anything.
The similar question is, I can write zero line codes with Wordpress eCommerce to setup a eCommerce site like Amazon.com, why Jeff Bezos would spent so much money and hired thousands people to develop Amazon.com?
Yep. Get a few execs cross-pollinating over the years and you get this. It's surprisingly common and happens right before our eyes.
I’m confused as to why they are breaking something/have broken something that not only worked in the previous version, but also seems to be a big push from them on a technology front.
You never know when, one day, you'll find yourself in a similar group of targeted people based on some otherwise-mundane characteristic. And by then it'll be too late for you to "not use Facebook".
Self-representation would be the sensible answer here. Just because your friend didn't have a good answer doesn't mean there isn't one.
The way I ended up structuring my opcodes was similar to your way but a little different still. I ended up using function pointers but an array of them. Each opcode is defined in an enum and will be assigned to each funtion pointer based on it's corresponding array index. When the virtual CPU reads an opcode it just calls the function pointed to by the pointer at that index.

I found doing it this way makes it easy to change or add opcodes without needing to go back through a giant switch statement to find and rearrange everything. As a bonus too, the assembler just uses the same enum and basically just works through it the opposite way the CPU does. Translating keywords to the matching opcode index in the array then writing the index to the correct memory address in the binary. This also means any time I update an opcode or add one in the virtual machine all I have to do is add it to the enum and both the assembler and virtual machine will be updated without having to do anything else.
Who's parasitizing? Airbnb has 38 million users. That's a ton of value being provided! Clearly people want options besides classical hotels. Just because some guests aren't respectful or something doesn't mean the service as a whole is bunk.
> He repeatedly stated that did consumed large quantities of alcohol in late high school and in college.

No, he repeatedly denied it (while only admitting that he “liked and likes beer” and occasionally drank beer in moderation). He also made up comically absurd lies about his high school yearbook, and lied about several other more serious topics e.g. related to his work for Starr and his work as a Bush staffer. (I don’t intend to re-litigate this here. You can do a web search and find numerous analyses of the details.)
This is why you shouldn't rely on Timatic for overland travel. But Belarus border rules are really messy anyway. E.g. you can't go from Belarus to Russia overland, unless you're a citizen of either of them.
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
Why would that be? Midwestern smalltown politics and close-minded attitude? An Indian colleague who is teaching in the nowhere Midwest tells genuinely awful stories about racism and is getting ready to leave.
Could the police, after being baiting a thief have enough evidence to support an investigation into the individual, and get them for a felony?
Might be wrong as I haven't followed this too much. But, my impression was that he mostly played a clueless person caught in a grotesque situation. Doubling down would mean going after his accusers directly.

He's in a tough spot given who he's up against. In an oligopolistic industry like ours it's risky to be hated by anyone.

But I do think it would work in the sense that he'd have a larger group of people cheering for him. And this is solely about clarity. If you're too nuanced in what you're broadcasting to the world people don't know how to react. Nobody wants to waste time trying to figure you out. Doubling down is exactly about taking out any nuance for a stronger message.
Here's their very brief unaudited financial statement.[1] This makes no sense for a financial institution. How can their liabilities be so low? Anything on deposit with them is a liability for them. This seems to say "all your assets are belong to us."

[1] https://d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net/assets/robinhood/legal...
Sorry, I don't understand.
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The more I hear of these new social rules I have to follow [retroactively, mind you] to ensure I'm not "shamed", the more lower income rougher occupations sound grand.

No one probably gives a damn about the sexist wielder or the extreme right/leftist garbage collector because no one wants those jobs and are just happy someone is willing to do it.
PV just doesn't scale in the same way. There's only so much surface area to cover in panels. The power density of fusion is so many orders of magnitude larger that even with cheap reliable solar panels I think there will always be a use for working fusion
How do you know what I do? Admittedly, it doesn't happen very often, but you can bet your butt I'll at least take a cursory glance at a barber's licence before I trust him/her with giving me a straight-razor shave.
See my other discussion in this thread. I don't accept this "game theory" theory.
It was the same with Trump. I'm pretty sure the outrage directed at him (even though much more justified) was a big reason for his victory.
The incentive structures are mostly the "go anywhere, anytime" convenience of owning a car. That's a pretty tough one to overcome. For me, I'd say it's impossible.
This is an interesting article. I do understand why pieces like this get flagged, but I also wonder whether we need to embrace these discussions rather than suppress them.

To my point, I’m not supporting Empire, but in the time of the Raj, the East India Company was tightly held by British aristocrats and was not Britain. In turn Britain as controlled by the state was not the British people. As well as using Indian profits to wreak havoc globally, it was used to maintain dominance in Britain by the state.

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Among other things, we run residential VOIP networks for large ISPs and other operators, and it's ridicilous to see the prices CenturyLink, AT&T and others charge their home customers for just phone service... I regularly come across LOAs and phone bills for $60 to $120 single home phone lines - for absolutely no reason other than that they can get away with it.
I think these enormous tracts of suburban and rural land that were populated with government subsidies and no real economic reason to exist should be slowly and gracefully depopulated, with people settling denser areas (which we have a scarcity of, due to racially motivated zoning laws and other policies). We also need to do a better job of limiting sprawl so that people living in cities are closer to nature and don't have to travel through hundreds of miles of suburbs to "escape".

People act as if all these small towns are growing our food and are vital for the national economy when in reality the vast majority of them consist simply of the industry required for their local suburban/rural existence (schools, supermarkets, hospitals, road maintenance, etc.).

The places that are actually productive (e.g. large agricultural regions) of course have to stay but these are relatively not so populated to begin with (and use less and less labor every year). People have no idea of the magnitude of distortion that props up the myth of the small town in America.

Policywise, I think a gradually introduced land value tax and carbon tax (replacing to some degree property and income taxes) could do a lot to enact this restructuring in a "natural" way.
The last three or so times I saw this topic on HN it was a link to an article that cited a Koch funded think tank.

It seems to be a particular hobby horse of theirs.

Which is weird, why are a bunch of oil guys obsessed with hairdresser licensing?
> Official data shows it grew 6.5 percent in the three months that ended in September, compared with a year earlier.

Either Trumpism works, or the article is just weak.
The customers did find out at the last minute. Weeks notice is last minute.
Conversely, that the mechanism is so old indicates that it evolved to work in groups of the size humans (or their ape ancestors even) formed back when it first appeared - i.e. dozens, not millions. It's not a given that the way we scale it is optimal, or even good.
They became a strong force only after a few battles in 1757 and 1764 (plassey, buxar etc.) Earlier they came in the garb of traders.
as i said it was more lighthearted.

i wrote it at a bus stop after work in London, nothing snarky intended.

ive used bullet points A LOT in many comments over the years.

it used to be “citation needed” back in the day, so i still supply them.
Wow this is a new low. Can someone say is CenturyLink a monopoly is most of the state? Can these customers vote with their wallet and go elsewhere for Internet? I really hope.
I disagree. The pretense makes it worse. I think there's something far more comforting about the honesty of a government just stealing my money and owning up to it. Don't waste time and distort my perception of the world with that bullshit.
A bug in #Facebook Photo #API exposed photos of 6.8M users
> If you wanted to do the study fairly, you'd make also some attempt to quantify the benefits from fewer accidents, lower insurance premiums, lower remediation costs and faster work etc associated with licensed professionals carrying it out.

I disagree. The report is eplicitly about the costs of licensing. It's not trying to be an all encompassing and comprehensive study of all possible pros and cons. Let those benefits be the focus of another study.

"Hey $accountant, I need you to write up a report of all business expenditures."

"Sorry boss, that wouldn't be fair. All I'll tell you is that we made a net profit of X million. I don't want to tell only one side of the story"
Robinhood channels Uber/Kalanick model to "disrupt" banking....lol
It took me to 'my friend Brian' to pick up your sarcasm.
Yea, you need to stop that. Start carrying distilled water with you.
I live in the kind of rural place you're talking about. Rural town of 2500, majority farmland/undeveloped, historically impoverished part of the country.

Many people in my town are exactly what you'd expect. But a good fraction of them are millionaires with huge McMansions and lakeside property. The cars that go down my road are a mix of beat up pick up trucks and Cadillacs.

I guarantee you, no outside entity subsidizes us. Not with those kind of property taxes coming in. And I guarantee you, my town is not unique in this regard.
Also, never take nude photos with your face/head in the photo. Never let someone take photos/video of you drunk. Unless you want kids with this person, always use a condom.
they track and keep data on non-users as well though
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Where did the British get a lot of raw materials for their industrialization. Where did they dump a lot of their products ?
"A few days before this" really isn't "handling this pretty well".

It's great that they (you?) are offering some assistance in transitioning to an alternative, but it's still a very crappy situation for customers during the holiday season with many people taking extra time off.
You could just take the CEO to small claims court for the maximum amount in your area (usually $5000-$10000) for the charge + punitive. Some states make it so you can't have a lawyer represent you in small claims court, and since Centurylink does business in your area then the person you served (i.e. the chief executive) would have to show up in person.

That's basically what I did with a shady property management company (AMC LLC, one of the largest in the US tried to steal my security deposit) and won, but I've heard that huge corporations like CenturyLink will even immediately follow up with a settlement offer to avoid spending an executive's time.
Absolutely no leader welcomes an economic slowdown. Especially not the leader of an authoritarian government.

Your hypothesis does not explain why the Chinese government is acquiescing to American trade demands. If they welcomed this economic slowdown they would be holding firm in trade negotiations.

What we are actually seeing happen is a rebalancing of foreign investment. American businesses have purchased stock in excess in the previous quarters using existing supply chains and are now moving supply chains out of China. Money that used to flow into China is now flowing into neighboring countries such as Vietnam. Mark my words, if the Chinese government allows this transfer to complete it will never come back to China and China's middle and lower class will be gutted.

Imagine if America's manufacturing economy was outsourced to China in the 60s rather than in the 90s when it already had a thriving service economy. That is what is happening in China.

Many people believe that authoritarian leaders are less beholden to their people than democratic leaders and because of this are able to withstand economic disasters easier. What they fail to realize is that when an authoritarian country fails economically there is only one group of people to blame and when judgement occurs it's not through polls but through violence.
No, because the other branches have failsafes, such as periodic elections. But with SCOTUS, if you make a mistake and confirm the wrong candidate for the job, the only remedy is impeachment, which is very hard to pull off (by design). Thus, the standards have to be extremely high.
Person dies under unusual, rare circumstances. Happens every day, there are nearly 8 billion of us. Why is this news?
I'll try to clarify some important reasons why tipping is bad:

1. It offsets labor cost to the generosity of customers, putting an employee's take-home in the hands of the customer.

2. This creates an interaction with the staff where they have incentive to try obtaining an additional ambiguous amount of money from the customer.

3. Sometimes this means being overly characteristic, other times it means trying upsell you to raise the total amount, effectively raising their tip.

4. Other countries reject tipping because they want their employees giving you 100% service regardless of a tip incentive (because there is none). In America, good tippers are treated better by staff (especially at bars, think stronger drinks), while bad tippers get what they get (not something you want from a food serving establishment: watch the movie Waiting and try telling me foregoing tipping is a good idea).

Tipping is an abomination of a custom that we should reject as a society.
From the article, what's somewhat surprising to me is that she actually used a store-bought water filter:

> In the case of the Seattle woman, she likely became infected with the amoebas from her tap water, according to the researchers. Rather than filling her neti pot with saline or sterile water, she used tap water filtered through a store-bought water filter.
For context his full name is Jake Burton Carpenter, the company is his middle name.
You can safely use bottled water, that would probably be a easy alternative :)
It might be different from a technical perspective, but from a privacy perspective information about the user has been transferred to the advertiser, who paid Facebook for the privilege. And "at some later point" may not be that far-fetched, if the adtech company operating the fingerprinting code happens to sell their data to other companies, etc.
Or Reddit.
Ouch. I've taken to using the Arm&Hammer spray cans, even though they're quite a bit more expensive.
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Many ideas/techniques/whatever are good in theory. But for something to actually work, it needs to be good in practice. Right now, all of the practitioners are voting with their feet. That is strong evidence about the (non-)viability of permaculture. I'm open to being wrong about this, but there is a huge chasm between what works on paper or in small scale experiments and what works in the real world, at scale.

If permaculture is a viable way to produce food at the scale necessary to feed 7 billion people, we would be in the midst of a wide-scale roll out. But we're not. So I remain skeptical.
The new thing with the GFW in the last 3-4 years is to identify VPN-resembling traffic from DPI, using a fully automated/scripted system, and then over a period of several hours/days, the GFW causes incredibly high packet loss for all traffic to/from the non-china endpoint, eventually culminating in a nullroute of all traffic.