skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why was it bad? I'm not an audiobook listener so I don't know what's considered bad.
By mollycoddling our children, we're fuelling mental illness in teenagers
There's a great extension, AdNauseam, that automatically clicks every ad in the background for you. Google shut them down from Chrome, of course: https://www.fastcompany.com/3068920/google-adnauseam-ad-bloc...
> unfortunately he's unable to present it well. His lectures are almost useless.

I don't know; I've listened to dozens of hours of his videos and found them all useful and rather clear. I've heard comments like yours from others though, and I guess there are two points:

* Of course a person at 80 will not speak the same way they did at 40. (I'm currently watching his lectures on Mathematical Writing, given when he was 49: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mert0kmZvVM&index=2&t=0s&lis... -- youtube has some even older videos on TeX etc but they're probably of less general interest.) Older people generally have more halting speech and the like, but this is perfectly natural. I suspect that if, for cultural or whatever reasons, you haven't spent a lot of time listening to old people and learning from them, you may just find it unfamiliar. Nevertheless, I was in the audience when Knuth gave his 2017 Christmas Lecture weeks before his 80th birthday, and a lot of the audience did seem to follow along and enjoyed it. (You can hear laughter in the expected places in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQw4CdxLr8 -- so clearly not everyone feels the way you do.)

* Every person has their own speech style, their way of translating thought into sounds. Like an unfamiliar accent, it may take a few minutes or hours to get used to it. (If you care enough about the content you will.) What you get from speech idiosyncrasies (their pauses, backtracking, mistakes, etc.) that you don't get from the written word is a window into someone's way of thinking, and I find in Knuth's lectures it's much easier to follow along his thought process, than in speakers you may consider more "smooth". It's very natural and informal, even when he's discussing highly technical topics there's a lot of him that comes through, and that's very valuable IMO.

(And his speech seems well within the norm... I've seen comments like yours that sometimes attempt to diagnose medical conditions from afar; that can seem a bit excessive.)
The big difference is Google doesn't sell that data to third parties; they just use it for ad targeting. There's a big difference between the company that makes my phone's OS knowing my location, and anyone willing to pay a few bucks knowing the same.

(Also it looks like in the situation described in the article you linked, they didn't even use the data for ad targeting: "we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID".)
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Please don't break the site guidelines regardless of how wrong another comment might be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm pretty confident horses, especially ones pulling carriages, aren't super safe for pedestrians either.
Brexit panic buying: UK police advise shops to hire extra security
It's not surprising to learn that the top sliver of society pays most of the taxes, given that they earn close to half of all income.
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So what? We have a separate bar for alcoholics? We ban alcohol? What are you saying?

Great, I get it, you have empathy...but, ultimately, if you are an alcoholic you can't avoid people drinking alcohol and trying to avoid things generally isn't a long-term sustainable strategy
Location information leaks from ad targeting. Maybe that doesn't bother you, but it might bother other people.

One way it leaks is that an advertiser generally knows what ad campaign a user clicked on. So if that ad campaign was only sent to a particular location, you know where the user was when they clicked on the ad.
This is true, but it is also true that there were several individuals and organizations involved in ensuring that his run as a Democrat would be unsuccessful.
whoops this was supposed to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18883088, mods feel free to move it.
Before COUs supported stacks, quite a few compilers produced self-modifying code.

Instead of using a stack, many CPUs stored the address to return to in a specific register. If a function wanted to call other functions and return afterwards, it had to store that return address somewhere. Popular solutions where “directly before the start of the function” and “in the jump instruction at the end of the function”. The former is easier for the compiler writer, the latter leads to faster code (the return becomes a simple unconditional jump. With the other approach, you have to load the return address and then jump to it)

And yes, you can’t have reentrant code or even recursion that way. That’s one reason early COBOL and early FORTRAN didn’t support recursion.
FAANG and other large, profitable companies like Microsoft will pay you that.
YouCompleteMe used fuzzy finding to create something like IntelliSense.

LSP is an API that talks to compilers, and returns actual relevant data about the code you are working with, and in conjunction with the Debug Adapter Protocol allows things like setting breakpoints in a standardized way.

EDIT: looks like YouCompleteMe did try to use OmniSharp and racer to provide better support for certain languages, but it still is different than a standardized protocol that any language could add support for without needing to be included in a swiss army knife like YCM.
MMT is economics for morons
Thats incorrect. Some taxes, like corp taxes, are not borne by investors alone and fall on consumers, but there are taxes that do hit land owners, or investors, etc etc.

The concept is called tax inciddence.
Good for them. I'm not going to pretend I'm actually in a place where I even have the ability to make the choice that these founders made, but I've been reflecting deeply on whether I will seek VC support in the future, and I'm pretty set against it. At least I'm set against any VC's based in SV.

I don't think they're bad people or anything, and even quite like some individuals who work for VCs. But the way they operate, seems to perpetuate monoculture and wealth inequality. I know first-hand there are brilliant, ambitious people outside of the SV/NYC bubble, and I don't think VCs really give any care about those people besides perhaps offering to pay to relocate them. As a result, the mindset of these VC people is increasingly isolated from the nation and world as a whole. I've read so many stories about how they are encouraging diversity by funding immigrants who went to Stanford, as if race/sex/nationality is the whole picture. Where are the founders who grew up in trailer parks or projects? Who speak with a noticeable apppalachian, southern, or AAVE accent? Who worked their butts off in the military and community colleges/state colleges, because those are actually the most accessible doors to learning for Americans not from privileged backgrounds? Where are the people who want to build things, but value their family, extended families, local and religious communities more than the promise of extreme wealth in in a few select cities?

Those people are out there, and they are capable and ready. I know it's still just talk, but very soon, I'm going to put my money and my body where my mouth is and return to NC. I'm going to build things with those people. If by good fortune we see success - the money won't go towards making rich californians richer.
It's nothing.

In India Google operates one of the largest Fiber Backed project called Railwire. It's a GOI enterprise, but we can say that officals are effectively bribed to participate in data harvesting schemes and enriching a few officials and one big American company.

Google offers this company internet technology expertise in return of harvesting data from railway stations, Users of the ISP called Railwire.

Basically, they set your DNS to Google's DNS and Google captures what websites are popular in these specific regions.

You can change your DNS obviously but 90% users don't bother and it doesn't save you from deep packet inspection.

Google also harvests non Https websites and run deep packet inspection of the traffic.

Why would it provide its tech expertise for free?
Did you post this to let us know how superior you and your family are to the author of the article?

> This is the kind of decisions that lead to being 460 pounds.

And this kind of over-simplification of a complex neurological and physiological disease isn't constructive.
We don't know the percentages of the disagreement, maybe Unity asked for 90% or something illogical for Improbable to accept.
I much much much rather have the companies with a public image to uphold be the keepers of this data. There are soooo many scuzzy people out there. Beyond that, the US is highly due for both public records laws that make sense in the internet age, as well as digital data as a product, needs to have similar laws put in place.

To be honest, there really shouldn't be websites out there that know you and your family members and your phone numbers. This stuff should be under lock and key and require special PI licences to get access.
> Should I be able to spark up a joint, too?

Sparking up a joint in hotels or university buildings is unlikely, as smoking is already banned indoors. But greater acceptance of sparking up a joint elsewhere may well be coming. When I traveled around Uruguay in the time after marijuana was legalized, I occasionally found that customer-facing people like a bicycle repairman or greengrocer were smoking a joint while serving me.
Ockam's easy to deploy identity, trust, and interoperability open-source IoT SDK
easy from the perspective of this law: build a db of every line spoken in every movie. Then block all posts containing a line from this db. If this blocks too much, dang provides human appeal.

UPDATE: To be clear, I am very much against this law. The collateral damage will be immense. But the politicians who want this law, they simply dont care.
Your first line is quasi legal, and everyone agrees is bad. But no one calls it out. ( because even mighty new york times uses data brokers.. )

The other is literally how all advertising has ever worked! ( yes, cable TV was targeting you ). Yes, placing an ad in a certain location is also targeting. It's not inherently bad, it can be abused though.

The implied "please oh save us facebook", is well, WTH. Should we stop all political advertisement? should we prevent outside money in local elections? should we prevent foreigners from advertising in a different country? These are all great questions. But no one has ever had the right answers.

We're crucifying a company because they amplified society. We are asking them to solve societies evils. We are not focusing on the actual evil itself. ( sorry for the rant, but you went on one too :-P )
Brings me memories about stories at PARC, there were often manager-free path between groups. This led to unleashed creativity: want something ? ask the dude that know about something, done.
For sure I'm not anywhere close to embedded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in September/October. Basically it aggressively grew within a few months. I can tell you without any doubt that huge advances are coming. I expect a hockey stick in the survival rates based on new understandings of all cancers. We're right on that edge of a manageable disease. Hang in there.
I am up, sent you an email
Now imagine this without familial support of any kind.
I think there is a difference between allowing ads to target an area and selling someone's real time location. I'm against the collection of data generally because that data can always end up in court, but Google has never given people access to my real time location.
As someone who does social science causal inference for a living, I have to say that I didn't really enjoy "The Book of Why". Full disclosure: I mostly practice the Neyman-Rubin potential outcomes form of causal inference rather than the Pearl do-calculus / DAG ("directed acyclic graph") form of causal inference, but the two are in many cases equivalent.

The reason I didn't like the book is that I found it insufficiently rigorous to really engage with the "how" of doing causal inference, but excessively mathematical as a theoretical introduction to causality.

"Causality: A Primer" (also written by Pearl) is a very short book that I think does a good job of surfacing some of the same theoretical background while also explaining how to use Pearl's causality. If you exhaust that, I'd recommend moving to the full "Causality" book.

But otherwise I'd recommend actually looking into the counterfactual / potential outcomes view of causality. The set of questions it answers are about 80% overlapping (although both Pearl and POs have their own 20%), but I find the vocabulary a little more intuitive. Canonical books include Morgan and Winship "Counterfactuals and Causal Inference" or Imbens and Rubin "Causal Inference for Social Scientists".

As to the blog post, Pearl is correct that causality requires qualitative assumptions about design to justify assumptions required to do causal inference. In Pearl's work this is often motivated as qualitative knowledge informing the structure of the DAG before any estimation. But recent advances in causal discovery have actually rendered it possible to black box the structure of a DAG from data -- happy to provide citations if this is down the rabbit hole. By contrast, I agree with Gelman that Pearl is an irritating writer and that in "The Book of Why" he gives a sloppy intellectual history of causation.
> That would be an argument for lurkers to make an effort, even if, like this comment, it's just a barely-formed idea.

The content is there, by lesser known figures and lurkers alike. It’s just hard to discover. You need to stumble upon it by accident, instead of by a deliberate process like consuming the top upvoted posts.
Nowhere is this more apparent than the relationship subs. It's full blown Jerry Springer in there. The front page is pretty much trash TV.
Just because someone tries as hard as they can and does the best they can doesn't mean they are right. The available info may simply be flawed (GIGO).
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For most values of "real", no, it's not.
Thankfully, "Causality: A Primer" is sort of like the CliffNotes to Finnegan's Wake ;)
This is an attempt to explain the details of the trusted ceremony, why it was needed, and what is being trusted.

I like that it describes two different levels of trust required — trust in both the destruction of the initial secrets and in the original formulation of the problem. Were both levels of trust established, in the case of ZCash?
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This is also a reason why sometimes, while it might seem pointless, engaging in a discussion with someone you know won't change their point of view, can still be worthwhile. Because there's probably a huge number of lurkers who might either end up agreeing with you, or at least be deterred from simply agreeing with the person you're arguing with.
Let's not overthink this. If you don't want to drink alcohol get a soda and mingle and have some fun. Or do what I do: Get a seltzer water with a twist of lemon. Tastes refreshing and looks legit.
One is a massive advertising company that makes the vast majority of it's money on advertising and has a history of invasive privacy issues.

The other one AFAIK doesn't sell user data, has publicly denied to help the FBI (Have other companies done that? If not then they assume complied), and has put in a large amount of effort to protect privacy (It's one of the main arguments of why IOS/OSX is so locked down).

Obviously this doesn't mean apple doesn't do bad things behind the scenes, but based on the information available to us is why people trust them more with privacy then google.
Why does Corbin Bleu have the 3rd-most translated Wiki of anyone living or dead?
How do you even get something cofounded if you have no money? Is it failure mode to have an idea and be poor? Not everyone can afford to take zero pay until their product gets to market and starts generating returns, you still have to feed and shelter yourself and your cofounders which is very costly.
What's the smallest annual net income target (say, within 10 years) for a company that you would suggest VC is a good fit for?
I could see that, but couldn't it give a lesser-known or less desirable VC an edge?
Wouldn't that be Elixir and Phoenix?

Not so popular, but a number of those who have made the switch swear by it.
Wrong.

"One of the first things anyone learns about Zcash" is that at least one of the ceremony's participants must be trusted to have securely destroyed his toxic waste.

This article is about the fact that there could be a backdoor, whose absence can only be proven by revealing all participants' toxic waste.

You'll note that these two things are at odds with each other.
Improbable stated, up front, that they were in negotiations with Unity. The disagreement seems to be that Unity claims they were in violation of the TOS the entire time, while Improbable claims the recent changes to the EULA are what they now violate.

> I really think Unity went above and beyond, here.

Nonsense. Unity likes to portray itself as the "open" alternative to other gaming engines, when in reality they have an iron-fisted grip on everything distantly involving their platform.
1. manage the cost. I fund my project out of my pocket. knowing how expensive AWS could be (through my day job), I'd keep my code efficient.

2. yes, familiarity.
don't listen to them, the FAANG pay thing is only for select few and is obviously a bubble waiting to pop
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> Here's some robustness for you: our ancestors have been depending on their respective families since humans were a species

It's apples-to-oranges to compare a biological definition of robustness at the species level over eons to the definition we use to evaluate the current condition of people in modern societies. They are completely different metrics, operating over different timescales, and measuring totally different phenomena. Your usage measures the survival of humans as a species on biological time scales. The version of robustness that is relevant to the article is the chance of destitution or suffering faced by the typical member of a modern society, given modern society's standards for measuring those.

Wild animal species experience extremely high mortality rates compared to humans, due to a number of factors, including predation, disease, displacement, and environmental changes.

The whole experiment of human "civilization", from animal domestication, to agriculture, to the development of technology and the societal structures needed to support all of those, has been about protecting us from the risks nature poses to our existence.

> Whereas the oldest extant government are only several hundred years old. And many aren't even as old as my grandparents.

Whether it's an extant government is irrelevant. Governments come and go, but their function doesn't remain unfulfilled for long. We know that governments of some kind or another have existed since at least 3000BC, and importantly, that these governments had mechanisms for redistribution of their society's productivity (regardless of the direction of that redistribution).

EDIT: fixed the fallacy name
How does it compare with Telepresence + skaffold ?

I like the console UI idea.

I dislike the server components (the same way I dislike draft and tiller).
To some capacity, you are creating a product that competes with mining, which is a rather large market.

You'll have hurdles similar to coinhive, where malicious and white-hat people alike will both be interested in running your software.

Why not use this method to create a new crypto where the mining is actually a useful service?
It's easy to find out if they keep doing it, so at least having the FBI force them to sign a statement that they stopped or XYZ happens (with the word prison on it), would be the minimum muster.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2019/01/10/google-board-sued-for-90-m..., which points to this.
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Putting a few buckets around the place with ice and bottled water probably isn't too unreasonable. I think most people would appreciate that, not just the recovering alcoholics.
OK, all but one. Algeria or any other "Algeria" would have no chance against the Ottoman army. They kept coming and coming and coming...
Hooooo boy.

First off, it's not in any way accurate to refer to groups of people by skin color. I know "white" Mexicans and "brown" Caucasians.

Second, the parent comment is misguided for a number of reasons.

Anyone suggesting "all white people do <x>" are misguided because they're trading in racist stereotypes. But there is a trend that they are trying to point out, which is an inherent bias of the majority population who receive a greater share of opportunities than any other group in this nation, which is shown by things like overall increased income, increased job opportunities, increased representation in government, increased representation on corporate boards, increased representation in the media and entertainment, etc. It's not hard to see that it's been a "white man's world" for a long time now and it's only starting to be rolled back. Unless you're white, in which case it's very hard to see.

In addition, the statement that this one metric alone proves that white people don't oppress other groups is silly! It's one year's median household income in the US! Even if asians as a group make more per median household, that doesn't mean they don't face discrimination, it just means they're well compensated. Show me all of the leading asian men in American movies, and all the asian men on boards of directors, and asian men as leaders of political parties, and so on.

Taking one arbitrary economic metric and using it to try to disprove an obviously problematic multifactored cultural norm, is really reaching.
Dell may have been a dorm room startup, but VC influences exists even in it's first early years from Lee Walker who I don't believe was just a simple salaried employee but must have invested some of his own money for equity, and it had meteoric growth in the first few years from dorm room project to full fledged multinational company with a very quick IPO.
Sure, if you feel like going to a website to read about it. How about putting all of that lore in the game?
Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics
I really enjoy these write-ups. They offer such a great inside look into a business that many do not get to see. Also, being able to step back and look at your victories and defeats over the year takes a lot of self reflection but can be so helpful moving forward. Awesome write-up!
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"... as soon as we heard about this practice, we required our network partners to shut it down as soon as possible.” Google did not say when it made this a requirement.

Hey, stop doing that, please?
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Cryptocurrency significantly reduces the risk and cost of attempting a scam, meaning if you're involved, you will be exposed to a huge volume of scam attempts. The result is that everyone in the market is very diligent about who they place their trust in, and anyone who's new to the space becomes that way before long.
Assisting a regime (which has committed genocide) with censorship isn't the same as assisting genocide. That should be clear from reading my comment.