skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't work at Google for free if I was a junior or mid-level engineer doing something boring like maintaining an old codebase or trying to keep servers online. But some of these employees get to work on truly interesting projects with some of the best engineers in the world. Especially if they are inventing new products or researching and discovering new things. I imagine that the AI researchers earning millions per year probably love their work and would do it for free.
I wonder how oily/fatty smudges behave. Because on eyeglasses, they are either very noticeable, or, if you try to wipe them off but only end up smearing them all over the place, not really noticeable but extremely tiring (probably from subtle degradation and dispersing light coming from the side across what you see).
what an accurate, non-clickbaity and non-karmawhoring submission
Just that Facebook doesn’t use the content of messages to inform ads or ranking!

Gmail does btw
I recommend doing a few years at a large software company to pretty much everyone, especially as a first job. It will build a foundation of good software development practices that will hold you in good stead for the rest of your career.
By your reasoning, people that are 'bad' at developing software are also passionate about it otherwise they would never become good.
As someone not versed in either, how much does not being able to track changes forward through the history matter? It sounds like that might be pretty important, but git’s popularity would seem to indicate that it doesn’t really matter in practice?
Exactly this. Comparing similar activities but at vastly different scales will often lead to misleading conclusions.

In engineering, I've heard this idea expressed in the rule of thumb that the best solutions change with each increase in order of magnitude.
You can trade them for weed.
This is pretty close to a Gish Gallop.
Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on
What will they do with Bagger 288?
That doesn't automatically justify "scummy". Especially when it's a tiny amount of data.

And what about a company where you can clear out the few bits of data they have, but still can't delete the account itself?
Well, one doesn't violate your privacy. Also it's more relevant.

I could imagine tracking ads to be more relevant, but they're not. So I don't really see the point of that hypothetical.
Just how is the subject provided by arXiv? By subject, do you mean the categorization such as stat.ML, cs.AI, etc.?
While I am following this conversation closely, I wanted to politely make a suggestion about something you said:

"You misunderstand me. Almost everyone does."

That sounds really frustrating. It's not clear from your post whether you mean this as "everyone who reads this comment does not understand me" or "people frequently misunderstand me"... but typically, someone who feels this way experiences this in the latter, general sense.

Good news: it is possible to dramatically improve the ratio of people who understand you. It will, however, require that you change how you communicate some kinds of information.

What I'm saying is that if people don't understand you, the first place you need to look is your own tools for communicating with people. Of course, what you are saying makes sense to you. But there's an intellectual fallacy at work if you assume that "almost everyone" is the problem and you are the solution. :)

Have you ever heard the saying, "The only thing all of your crazy ex-partners have in common is you?"

There are people who are tasked with explaining far more complicated concepts than source control who people claim to love learning from. That means there is hope for us all.
Surely full delete should be possible under GDPR?
If you can't advocate for yourself, how are you going to advocate for anybody else? A promotion process, if there is one, is an important time for you and the organization. Lots of people's time is being spent to figure out whether to elevate an individual towards a position of company leadership. In the long run, it's far, far more important than any individual project you might be working on (and if it isn't, show that you can get yourself out of the front lines, or you are destined to fail at management).
If he sell the bread for free and good enough then yeah I would consider get my bread from him.

Its not clear what the actual harm of damage that I suffer from these transaction or even if there is any.
If it is Communism, then presumably it started in the 1930s, got worse post war, then got better at the end of the 1980s?

I'm not sure how the 'problem' manifests, but it doesn't seem to line up with globalisation.
Alaska Hunter Who Killed Cubs in Bear Den Gets 3 Months in Jail
> you can best bet those companies are gonna be scrutinizing the hell out of whatever resume I give them

Trust me, nobody does that. Resumes are quickly skimmed by 97% of people who gets them.
Higher levels at Google inevitably mean getting people organized.
Convincing that your design is worth investing resources into.

If you are awesome only at cranking out code, you are stuck at L4.
This is the big battle playing out right now, but I'm not sure that "his data" should be taken for granted vs. "data about him". But "A Man's Obsessive Fight to Reclaim Cambridge Analytica's Data about Him" sort of begs the question in the other direction, and doesn't sound like something that should obviously work.

More to the point, the framing of the article points to legal remedies and such. The reverse framing points to technological solutions in the vein of federation, encryption, etc. I tend to prefer the latter.
Even though in this case the jobs went to The Netherlands, the Irish are probably best positioned to benefit from this act of economic suicide England is engaging in. They’re close to the UK and mainland Europe, they’re building a reputation for providing favorable conditions to large companies, and it’s less expensive. Beyond Ireland I think some other EU countries stand to benefit as well.

All told, when you consider that it’s not as though England is going to break out in calm stability regardless of how Brexit proceeds, I think the result is going to be an irretrievable loss for England in particular, and the UK in general. I also wouldn’t be shocked if this (and demographic shift) ultimately leads to a reunification in Ireland, and independence passing for Scotland. At that point I guess England and Wales can try to figure out what to do with all of that unused and unwanted infrastructure in London.
I mostly agree, but note that the contact discovery problem is a bit tough to solve without an SGX-like solution: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
The ACLU, MIT researchers, think tank representatives and the border patrol itself contradict your claim in the article.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone...
Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push
Facebook to Merge WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
> but you shouldn't try to infer what a corporate culture is like merely from the flavor of fluff on job ads.

What should you infer corporate culture from? If job ads are written by HR, and not by say lead engineer is already telling.
Why are you running organization where long term crunch is required and norm? What is primary motivation for having crunch as goal?
Is this how the inland CBP checkpoints are allowed to operate? For instance, there's one on I-5 near San Clemente, CA, and another on I-8 near Yuma, AZ.

They've never been open and actively checking cars when I've passed by, and I heard that they're only used when looking for vehicles that match a tip they may have received, but I have wondered about their authority.
I agree, that's a good point, and the way that I really hope it goes. I think it depends on how we use the tech; it's a huge opportunity for decentralization and good things for the little guys. It's kind of what Aristotle said about wealth, it isn't good or bad in itself, but how it is used is what makes it good or bad.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18930798
Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality
This seems unlikely. Most people only have things to hide from their family, friends and neighbours. They don't care about whatever data Google, Facebook, Visa or their government might collect about them, and will prefer free services no matter what the privacy cost is.
Sounds reasonable.

What's the difference between global trade and domestic trade though?

Seems to me that differing standards are the problem, rather than globalisation per se?
Microsoft wins patent for ‘curved edge displays’ that could be combined together
It’s just easier and more profitable to not care

Easier yes, more profitable no. Selling direct advertising is the most profitable of all: the money all goes to the site without 20 trackers and 8 seconds of auction-waiting on each of your pages, resulting in a better experience for everybody.
It's like mixing an elixir with red wine. You drink it and it cures you, and you then claim red wine has cured you, rather than the elixir.
Muter: Automated Mutation Testing for Swift
Of course you did.
I guessed that the title was about startups that value privacy but still collect too much data. When they get acquired by a typical giant corporation, they don't value privacy but still have lots of data. The modification clause is what enables them to misuse peoples' data.
Swarm Technologies raises $25M to deploy its own 150-satellite constellation
Neither of your sources clarifies the interpretation I gave or offers any sort of refutation. The link I gave and the text I copied provides the definition of "external boundary" for these purposes.
I think it’s easy to forget that it’s someones job to design employee compensation and they usually aren’t the same person or even team working on retention, benefits or recruiting. When they get rated on how well they do their job it’s mostly on how efficiently did you use our capital which means as they optimize for their reward they pay people the minimum they can get away with.
Linux: how time has shaped the penguin
Shared set of local branches, they might be many
"Most of the cost cuts that emerged since then have focused on divisions outside the core internet business, such as drones, wearable devices and other "moonshots."

Google/Alphabet is still doing badly at anything consumer-facing that isn't ad-supported. Not for lack of trying. Google Fiber, Google Express, etc. They've had some success at enterprise apps and cloud services, but they're not the major player in that space. The self-driving car thing is not going as well as expected. Ads are still 94% of Google revenue, and they're probably overstaffed for that business.
Sometimes you know your scale. Say you have a website for your local area D&D club. You know that nobody outside a 20 mile radius is going to ever really bother looking at your stuff. And you know that there are about 200 people interested in D&D in this area. You need a contact form on your site to email you when someone has a question. How many connections at most would you realistically expect to have to process in this case per second/year/decade?
> the perfect dark pattern

You can't think of anything worse than not having a delete account button on a pseudonymous list of article comments?

> All we need to ask now is "Why"

HN already employs someone to manage this little discussion site, and he seems to have the bandwidth to handle an occasional delete request by hand. Why assume there's a more nefarious reason for not investing resources into automating that process?
Because auditing is garbage and there's no way to know who isn't collecting this information.
This isn't quiet as clear cut as you're saying. There are instances where you cannot record conversations. For example, in the bedroom or other places where someone has a reasonable expectation of privacy like a therapist's office.

But the general thrust of what you're saying is true. Phone calls, and interviews or conversations in public can be.
This argument would call for an end to the distinction between manslaughter and honicide, as an example.

Corporations should probably not enjoy that distinction in the same way that people do. The sooner we dispense with the harmful fiction of corporate personhood the better. Either way, let’s not conflate people and the law, with corporations and the law.
But what are you saying people should do? Only communicate information that I don’t mind being public using traditional non-secure messaging systems, and use stegonagraphy whenever one wants to communicate private information?
I don’t remember who talked about this on one of the YC podcasts but they brought up that google hires the smartest people for 3 reasons: to kee them from going to competitors, keep them from starting something that may challenge google, use them when they need to build something incredible.
Anyone smart enough to use such program would probably be smart enough to just google the correct fonts.
I just opened atlasobscura.com

There is no privacy popup for me.
I am in the US, so EU laws are not applicable here.

I blame EU GDPR laws for the popup that Rainer Müller suffered from.
It's more of a watch what they do vs what they say thing:

> since 1979, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates whenever it looked like wages were going to rise faster than inflation. The Federal Reserve, in other words, has crushed wages.

https://www.ianwelsh.net/trumps-continued-collision-with-the...

While you don't see similar raising of interest rates when we have record multi year growth in stock prices

The rates started going up as far as I can see in reaction to wage growth:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-17/fed-sh...

The inverse of the current situation happened, ie: If we have record multi year wage growth and the fed only starts ramping up interest rates in response to a recent increase in stock prices, then I would believe what is nominally said about the fed a bit more :p
It's so sad that the word passion has become an euphemism for working long hours and weekends, and it really should be all about caring about the project. The paradox with that is that more you're burned out less you will care about the project (or anything else really), less "passion" you'll have.
In what sense is an adblocker freeloading?

They voluntarily delivered content to my device, in my home. What I do with it after that is my business and no one else's.

It's not freeloading in any sense if I serve my breakfast cereal from mason jars instead of the box. It's not if I tear out pages I don't want to see from a book or if I dump the ad leaflet from the newspaper or credit card offers in the trash. It's not freeloading if I mute the radio during political attack ads. Why should it be any different on my computer screen?

My grandma got an iPad, and was using the calculator app to do her finances. I had a chuckle when I saw she had suck a sticky note over the ad. :-) Do you really see that as freeloading?

Its my house, my stuff, I can do with it exactly as I please, and there is absolutely no sense in which those companies have a "right" to my attention or in which I have some moral obligation to give it. To suggest otherwise sounds like a plot from a science fiction movie. I think Black Mirror had an episode like that.
US does not recognise international treaty of territorial waters.
In an odd coincidence, while I was reading this I received an email announcement about a Cato Institute event on February 4:

"America’s Border Wars: Inside the Constitution-free Zone"

https://www.cato.org/events/americas-border-wars-inside-cons...

They will be streaming the panel discussion for free on their site. Should be interesting!
I realize this isn't a solution for everyone, but my password management is

pw.sh
gpg -c ~/passwords.gpg | grep "$1"

Where passwords.gpg is a list of credentials next to a greppable identifier.
Yes, but it's also well-known that wumao exist. If you assume that communism is a stupid idea (which you should), then you probably assume that people posting pro-communist ideas (or dismissing pro-capitalist ideas), must either be stupid, or wumao.

Most Chinese people think Communism is a stupid idea too.
They will when it starts affecting their medical insurance, interactions with the legal system,etc...
Ask HN: Older HNers, would you like to see an annuity replication tool?
I was thinking of creating an informational tool; initially for the UK but also for the US; to replicate the terms of an annuity with a set of bond ladders (bonds with different maturity dates).

It'd allow you to create your own annuities, possibly at much better value than the retail market offers. I.e. put in annuity cost, life expectancy and annual pay out, etc and it'd chug out the closest matching bond portfolio with a similar or better payout structure and value.

I wanted to make it free for us older folks; as a informational public service; but I wasn't sure if it'd be appreciate or used.

What do you think? If I build it, will they(you!) come?
Back then, Buell was a fully-owned subsidiary of H-D. They built smaller, more agile bikes that one might use for the daily commute. What prevents them from building a lightweight bike, something like the Suzuki LS650? This model has been in production in some form or another for over 30 years now, Suzuki must be doing something right! (Yes, a motorbike can't have enough of one cylinder!)
What would count as your data? Given that your comments are part of threads, perhaps the comments should remain but the user (of all deleted comments by anyone) should be null?

I believe you own the copyright to each comment though, but does GDPR cover PII only or all other data as well?

Threads would be confusing if non-leaf nodes were to be removed.
You could make the same argument about the exotic metallurgy used in ICE components. Just like with an ICE subsystem, most of those subsystems you mentioned aren't trade secrets and have far greater operating tolerances than in an ICE.
Getting the big power plant and mine operators to agree to a 2038 deadline is meaningful. They were involved in the process for coming up with the phase-out path.

I can't imagine Peabody or Koch signing off on a 2038 deadline in the US.
Can someone fill me in on why people are upset Facbook will be consolidating DMs/PMs accross services - using E2E?

I've went other the past news releases, it seems to be a good thing to me.
How many people actually manage sub-20 minute commutes using any method? Short of finding an apartment a couple blocks from where you work, that's tough. And then if you move jobs, you have to move apartments too, which is a pretty big hassle.
I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Besides, squashing means the identity of the commits changes, doesn't it? So you can't merge the same branch into 2 different branches (like merging a bugfix into both the release branch and the trunk) while keeping the identity of the commits - then when you merge your release branch into your device branch you get wonky duplication of commits in the history.

I notice that move detection seems to get messed up by squashing sometimes...

But maybe I'm using Git wrong, which imho is the biggest flaw of Git - it's so flexible that there are so many ways to "use it wrong".
The Internet Is Going to End Up Like Greece
But BASIC on those computers was interpreted, and thus far too slow. Even the C compilers weren't that great. Every real game, AFAIK, was written in 6502 assembly.
My experience is that these kind of devs only survive in big environments e.g. multinational companies. Once they become the mayoriy (or the loudest) then part of the company will match their speed over time and the development time and time itself slows down. Tasks will be measured in weeks instead hours, meetings will be about anything to further the day, deadlines will fly by with everyone pointing to each other.

If there is nothing you can do to remove them the best you can do to ignore them, separate yourself, or them from everyone else. If you care enough you can try to mitigate the damage they may do. If you are surrounded by these type of developers you may want to do what I did: find a job where you can actually learn from others. I recommend small businesses as they cannot afford to have these people.
Sounds interesting. You should also post to bogleheads if you haven’t already.
I have not bought a book from Amazon in years... I go elsewhere for books nowadays. I'm one data point, but I have a close friend who works for an online book marketplace and they're doing extremely well.
From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: 'Revealed: Israel's Cyber-spy Industry Helps World Dictators Hunt Dissidents and Gays'

"Within a few years, the Israeli espionage industry has become the spearhead of the global commerce in surveillance tools and communications interception. Today, every self-respecting governmental agency that has no respect for the privacy of its citizens, is equipped with spy capabilities created in Herzliya Pituah."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel...
It's a measurable target. That's more than words.

And 2038 isn't that far out in the future.
It's #4 actually: https://www.levels.fyi/2018/

The stats are skewed by the fact that a lot of people who get L4/T4/E4 offers at other companies get downleveled to L3 by Google.
>Would you like any company you found in perpetuity to be criticized based on a private chat you had on AIM two decades ago?

Yeah, because that's relevant information, and that's how context works. We see this in courts of law. Why can't we look at history and consider the present at the same time?
This exercise shows the ridiculous amount of power people have seceded to companies like Facebook over their personal lives, and how little awareness of it exists.
The US has not ratified UNCLOS, but it still abides by many of the stipulations, particularly the 12-nautical mile limit of territorial waters. Given that the legal definition explicitly calls out the 12-nautical mile limit, I fail to see how your comment is relevant.
Right, we get it. Never criticize Israel, or you’ll find yourself set up by spies using hidden cameras and shady aliases.
The 100-mile border zone is being enforced. Are you contradicting the news articles, videos and other first-hand accounts of raids taking place far from the border? The evidence is right in front of your eyes.
I had a look..nice! I missed mention of its launch on here, about a month ago? Good luck with that!
> do some searches on mattresses and see what ads you see over the next weeks.

This sounds like an interesting experiment. I mean, the result seems obvious for a search on mattresses, but I think we can expand on this to search for more controversial or political topics. I'm going to start planning this experiment and I'd be very interested if anyone knows of an existing study along the same lines.
Logging is usually pretty deterministic.

A request might generate log entries a, b1, c or a, b2, c, depending on some conditions. The exact contents vary by request (otherwise there would be no need to log them), but the type is always the same.

If you find logs for c without either b1/b2 or a, you know log entries went missing.

If you have a 20% miss rate with recording your log entries, and you analyze just 20 log entries, the chance that one of them is missing is already around 98.8%.

If you actually use your logs for anything, it becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly when they are incomplete.
Because we are tired
Just giving my experience - I working in rendering graphics and use fossil for version control. Some of my repos are more than 100GiB in size and fossil has no problem with it. Fossil handles binary files adequately but the only catch is file size is limited to SQLite 'Blob' size limits (which is currently 2GiB). So if you have asset files larger than 2GiB, you'll have to split it into multiple files.