skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard not to look at this performance and take away from it that most people really don’t care about privacy. As upsetting as the thought may be to some, Mark’s hypothesis that privacy is no longer a social norm we value seems to be proven more and more right. Despite all the scandals and hearings, their DAU are more than the population of the largest countries on Earth. Short of serious legislation, what slows them down? Negative press seems to be nothing but pebbles thrown at steamroller...
Facebook Stock Is Up Because Earnings Crushed Expectations
Web Design for the Future?
probably headcount
In principle a good byte-wise entropy coder should recover nearly 100% of the base-64 "inflation" since no entropy is added. In practice gzip doesn't get all of it since it is an imperfect entropy coder for several reasons.
It's weird to me when people bring up MySpace as a positive example.

MySpace gave people headaches. Pulling all the stops on CSS manipulation without any associated training on design, color, or style gave us precisely what we got: an often-unreadable mess that bordered on the physiologically unpleasant.

I think we have seen few recapitulations of that style of system today (in spite of the fact that the tools to allow it never vanished) because most people don't want it, end of story.
It's ambiguous to me because the runway would presumably be closed as soon as the plane got stuck and not after waiting for the engines to restart. So the obvious reading of the sentence doesn't make sense.
Yes, I assume its correct, though to be clear, I have absolutely no way to validate it.

This quote from an analyst is one reason why I believe the user numbers.

> "It's hard to get people to stop using something they love. People love using these products, and there's these massive attacks that news outlets continue to heap on them, but consumers like these platforms and advertisers follow eyeballs. Most of Facebook's advertisers have no other place to go with a return on investment this good. This is clear proof."
Not "random people online", but I've got a few friends I think of as "terrifyingly smart", and one of their common characteristics is how they've all, in areas of expertise I've been investigating/researching/working in for weeks or months and which they have barely a passing interest in, quite obviously thought about a problem I'm describing and thought through a bunch of the obvious options, categorised them, and made conclusions about which avenues are workable and which should be discarded, and come up with either a workable solution or options I'd not even considered yet - all just in the course of a conversation over coffee...

(Somewhat frighteningly, two of those people are doing that at Facebook right now...)
Local governments are replacing California’s biggest utilities
Weight lifting. Provigil. Vitamin D if it's too cool for shorts.
From personal experimentation, a gzipped base64 jpeg is close to the same size as the jpeg.

So if you want to efficiently store some emails, it doesn't really matter whether you decode and store attachments separately or just compress the raw text. (Although decoding and separating allows deduping.)
Pain is just a way that animals experience strong motivation. People born without the ability to feel pain have serious problems, because they don't make enough effort to avoid damage.
I wonder how compliant HN is with Article 17 of the GDPR[1]. It's the "right to erasure".

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
I doubt the singer from Prodigy has ascended to any position of corporate authority.
So the gist of it is keep practising atleast once or twice a week and more so when you have interviews. And for the rest of the time, learn things that interests you. Right?
I feel that Google's manuals are notoriously bad or written in some kind of manualese dialect that only Googlers use. Things like Android or Firebase.

For Android, the unofficial manuals are better, or even Stack Overflow.

I've seen some very well written manuals though. Facebook seems to be good at it at least.
i think this would be the link, if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm938gMWl0
I don't disagree, but I don't think this would not work for all copyright. It might work for "personal use" reproduction - books, video games.

I don't think it would work for the 'public performance' part of copyright - composers, playwrights, movie directors.

For example, a lot of contemporary music is not published at all. If you get a score from the composer, you still have to pay royalties when you perform the music publicly.
Makes you appreciate an old-school Marxist Five Year Plan.

When does that sort of thing work, and when does it dramatically fail? I suspect that it's the looser forms of central planning that succeed and the tighter ones that spectacularly fail.
>What i wonder is why wouldn't voters put an initiative on a ballot to fight the gerrymandering.

This is exactly why my favorite saying, "every nation gets the government it deserves" is so true. If the people don't like the way their democratic government is working, it's their job to demand a change. In states where ballot initiatives exist, this is even more true, as the people have a mechanism in place to go around the elected officials if necessary. If they aren't taking advantage of it, it's their own fault.

It's just like the Electoral College at the federal level. People whine and complain about it all the time, but does anyone ever push to have it changed? There's action right now to push the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing women equal rights) through the ratification process as it's been short a few states for decades now, but where's the action to demand a Constitutional Amendment to rework the electoral system? There isn't any. The people are getting the government they deserve.
Could also use your browsers reader mode which does an amazing job at making websites usable.
Correct. The latter is a lot more likely to kill you.
A guess that Google will delete data is just as valid as a guess that they will keep it? Or more valid?

If you'd rather deal with evidence and reason than with guesses, I can understand that. But dude...c'mon.
“Still playing devil's advocate”

You are not playing. You are presenting arguments and attempting to sway opinion.

I’ll ask directly: do you not stand behind the arguments you’re making?
> Tesla is significantly ahead of the pack so far

Not really.

Audi e-tron, Jaguar iPace and BMW i3 are all well reviewed.

And 2019/2020 will see a wave of car companies e.g. Hyundai, Mercedes entering the market including plenty of interesting startups coming out of China. So Tesla is going to need far more to differentiate themselves than just range.
This is an oft trotted out saying that completely lacks any substance and serves as a distraction to keep people from recognizing how much more some politicians are working against their personal interest than others.

WI (the topic of this discussion) is a perfect example. We went from having Russ Feingold (a true shining star of progressive politics and the only senator to vote against the PATRIOT act) to Ron Johnson who is a true weasel.

Don't try and tell me that the guy who voted against the Iraq war, thought Dodd-Frank didn't go far enough, and worked actively for campaign finance reform is the same as a climate change denying, anti-abortion, anti-EPA shill.
I basically already had this happen on my end years ago. I worked as a designer/producer on two games developed and published to WiiWare: Evasive Space and NEVES Plus.

But our publishing company went under, and Nintendo took the games down several years ago. I still have them on my hard drive on my Wii, and I hunted down copies of the files so I could keep them in my collection, but there's no way for anyone else to get those games legally anymore. And they were pretty decent games, too (Evasive Space was probably too hard in retrospect, but still fun. NEVES was a solid puzzle game with lots of modes and a Patapon-ish character art).

It sucks. I wish I could tell friends and family to check the games out, but about the only thing I can do now is link to Youtube videos.

If I had the rights, plenty of cash, and the licenses, I would have ported these for other platforms, but instead they're just trapped in time (except for emulators), and I'm sure already pretty much forgotten. but at least there's emulators.

NEVES Plus Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQb19p09Y7Q
Evasive Space Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpKxYtuuug

There's other games I worked on for companies that are no longer easy to get either, these are just the two that were on the Wii.
Few people outside of SV bubble are paying much attention to these scandals.
s/chird/chirp/ ?
I also found this passage about mammographers from "Moonwalking with Einstein" interesting:

For most mammographers, practicing medicine is not deliberate practice, according to Ericsson. It’s more like putting into a tin cup than working with a coach. That’s because mammographers usually only find out if they missed a tumor months or years later, if at all, at which point they’ve probably forgotten the details of the case and can no longer learn from their successes and mistakes.

One field of medicine in which this is definitively not the case is surgery. Unlike mammographers, surgeons tend to get better with time. What makes surgeons different from mammographers, according to Ericsson, is that the outcome of most surgeries is usually immediately apparent—the patient either gets better or doesn’t—which means that surgeons are constantly receiving feedback on their performance.
People who get offended all the time ruined the fun?
We're in a kind of interesting economic situation when it comes to consumer compute and bandwidth resources. There's no "billing" for compute time on the server side nor on the client side. Bandwidth costs are also negligible on most connections. This means there are no pressures to efficiently utilize them beyond user annoyance (which usually isn't a strong enough motivating factor to modify behavior). Is the solution some sort of bidirectional billing scheme?

"This page will cost $0.02 to retrieve. Pay by running 20FLOPs of code?"

"OK"

"This page will cost $0.05 to retrieve. Pay by running 500FLOPs of code?"

"No, pay via $fiat_transfer_method"
That's the majority of people, not the majority of the work. I said majority of the work. The PhD supports my assertion that the majority of the actual work is done paid.

I don't believe you for your 999 out of 1000 repos, but I'm not sure how we'd check that. When I browse people's GitHub profiles it's almost all little forks of things they're clearly using in their work.

I don't know what people think OSS is - it's not hobbies. The majority of our infrastructure is OSS - operating systems, compilers, browsers, virtual machines, tools, it's almost all OSS and all majority paid contributors.
Any feedbacks would be very welcome, thank you!
I assume the gift card sponsors are companies that are given access to this data in some form?
>it is fair to argue they shouldn't be excluded but that is a different issue

It is, but for many of them they really should be excluded. How exactly is a 2-year-old going to make an informed vote, after all? How is an infant going to even fill out the ballot?

I would argue, however, that prisoners should be able to vote.
Two of my favorites:

Madness took me from Mental Hangover by Scoopex:

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Global Trash 3 v2 from Hardwired by The Silents:

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.s...

Both demos where trendsetting and truly ahead of its time.
Until this metric materially changes for the negative, nothing else with Facebook will change.
No, Apple’s statement makes it clear that the use of the enterprise distribution certificate signing method for this use case is an issue.

https://www.recode.net/2019/1/30/18203231/apple-banning-face...

“We designed our Enterprise Developer Program solely for the internal distribution of apps within an organization. Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data-collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple. Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data. “
Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0
"challenge, mission, technologies, or quality"

It's difficult to optimize this many different things at once. Odds are, when you have multiple opportunities, no single opportunity will be the best in each category. I care about "interesting/challenging" (I find challenging things interesting :P) and "impactful" and picking between the two can be a source of stress for me.

Getting a bit more meta, are you task-oriented, goal-oriented, people-oriented? What truly makes 40 hours a week more pleasant for you?

To actually answer your question, I enjoy performance engineering (impact: $$$) and distributed systems engineering / SRE (impact: availability, and the headcount you need to run the system). So I enjoy working on a large video platform. Large cloud providers in general seem like a fit.

Alternatively, to get the same kicks, I'd consider scientific computing (it has the same economics, it's worth doing clever technical things to save $$$), or embedded/gamedev (where you want to do as much as you can within limited constraints)
I wonder if that's what happened to Bernie Sanders. Immediately after his defeat in the primary he bought yet another house, his third. The timing is just too suspicious to be coincidental.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summe...
> why you'd need 13,000 people to do that?

From my understanding, creating 13,000 jobs means you will create 13,000 person-years worth of jobs. If you employ 1,000 people for 13 years you have satisfied the definition.
> Isn't the future supposed to be OLED?

They're not bright enough for sunlight readability - yet
When I see a title with possibly overblown philosophical implications, I get cautious. When I see "Max Tegmark", it is a sign to close a tab.

While science, in general, suffers from overblowing implications (as in promising that given research revolutionizes everything, etc - to get credit and the next grant), he is an ace of that.

To contrast it with "YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement" https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02767 in which the author goes to the other extreme, being bluntly honest.
Thanks for the thorough explanations. This is really helpful. Cheers.
I blame the death of Flash. Flash let a whole bunch of people make stuff who can't now. Artists, kids, people just dicking around. You could make something fun in a day and it didn't even need testing. Now you need to code properly and use git and libraries. A vast swathe of fun people have been cut off from making weird shit.
Point well made, however I'd like to consider shedding some light on "The problem is with you and not the internet. " -

For many people "the internet" is fbook. To some the net is what google says it is.

With F and B decided that some things should not exist at all, and other things should be downranked to basically never be seen, while promoting certain sets of sites -

I think the problem is more than the individual not really looking. It's more of an education problem where people don't understand the amount of censorship and how the down ranking and upranking is actually affecting the way most are using 'the internet' - which of course has the network effects of people only sharing what they (have been allowed to) see (and allowed to share) - sadly.

The time of web rings, less spam and less censorship made it more fun finding random things imho.

Times when tumblrs and torrents and geocities and others showed up in search results, along with click at the bottom to do a similar search with alta vista, lycos, etc..

was in some ways less weird, but more fun to surf and discover. at least for me.
Nope, you are wrong!

Google is doing the exactly same thing as Facebook is doing here and so are many other companies.

It’s common practice for businesses of all types to conduct customer research. Not just in qualitative ways but also quantitatively as in this case.

I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with that...though others here disagree on that point.

Of course all of these companies are in violation of Apple’s terms...so obviously Apple is in the right to enforce them properly.
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The OP gave no example, so I had to make a guess. In my experience, people that complain about "groups getting politicized" generally mean "a minority joined and was upset when we weren't inclusive."

Perhaps I should have simply left it at the question, but the internet is a frustrating place to have dialogues like that - clarifying every tiny point before running out of space for a counter argument.
Just continues to show, privacy issues don't matter to companies because it doesn't affect profitability and the stock price. Even with barrage of constant #deletefb and "I deleted my facebook" posts, it didn't actually matter. Essentially no change to daily active users and advertising revenue.
1.) That is not what bug hunting is. Also, law does not care about it and that is not how real world world bug fixing works at all.

2.) Just one note: being rational does not exclude irresponsible. Because what is in rational for Félix self-interest is not in interest of hacker giraffe nor in interest wannabe pre-teenage hackers in his audience. It might as well be rational for him to be irresponsible as his audience like it.

3.) No, he does not have form grasp of laws. Again that would be against his self interest, as he could not be funny clueless after.

I quoted him at full above. Frankly, sleezy and talking from both sides of mounth. Encouraging it while keeping plausible deniality. End result: he is safe while audience is having fun while they all think how cool consequences less it was.

4.) American law is batshit crazy with penalties, expansive and absurdly expensive even if you are actually innocent.
Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike
this always seemed like the right kind of trade-off - the sponsored links are generated from the search terms, not the 'personalised' search_terms+surveilled_data blob. if this is _all_ that Google the search engine did, I probably wouldn't have switched.
Is there something that tracks the number of minutes a daily active user spends on the site? I still login to facebook but I barely post on it anymore and spend way less time than I used to a couple of years ago.
It doesn't seem likely to me, since they aren't the kinds of physical processes that generate thoughts, so far as we understand it. The idea that composite objects like tables don't actually exist is called mereological nihilism.
Why Google Just Tightened Its Grip on DeepMind
It is a sackable-offense where I am; using He/Him and She/Her is absolutely forbidden.

I don't agree with sacking people over this but we 100% absolutely need to confront sexism (in every direction, and implicit & explicit) in our industry.
From what I can tell, robotic lawnmowers currently more common in Europe than in the US. I don't think I've ever seen one in the US, but in Norway they seemed to be everywhere. Is there a reason for this disparity?
Role playing... you used to have usernames and you could be whoever you wanted.. now you're expected to be yourself. Thanks facebook.
>A lot of online communities today are unbearable tho as everything's become so politicised. It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention

Can you help me understand your argument by giving examples of what this means? What is "politicising" and what communities have you seened ruined by "some minority of users politicising it for attention?"
Titanium spoons for backpackers are just silly.

If you want a metal utensil, aluminum is even lighter than titanium. Titanium is tougher but it's not like your utensil is a load-bearing beam.

Plastic utensils are even lighter than aluminum and don't transmit heat as fast or get as cold in the cold. Wood utensils are good too.
The editor who wrote that headline had to be British.
Security Operations Center
Fair enough! I can relate with plenty of my own side-projects, thanks for sharing yours.
>No, gerrymandering doesn't affect the raw number of votes for each candidate, but it undeniably affects the outcome of elections.

Oh, absolutely. But still, if Party X has a majority in the legislature, that still means that a very, very large number of your fellow citizens (possibly not an outright majority, depending on just how the gerrymandering worked out, but probably still very close to a majority) voted for Party X.

Another thing to note is that gerrymandering does not affect all elections. For a state, gerrymandering has zero effect on the governor's election, since all votes are counted equally in that race. So Wisconsinites are entirely to blame for their choice of their governor.
Router could mitm and chrome could allow it since they have google CAs in their chain.

Don’t know if they are doing this, but it’s certaibly possible to do this at router (or router dumps traffic to google to decrypt).

It’s much easier for google to do this since they make chrome. Another company would have to adjust the cert trust on each machine.
that's very interesting! but it's about angular momentum and I'm not confident that I can take the lesson over to linear momentum.

Here's my caveman f=ma thought experiment:

1. make it 2-d.

2. replace the fan with a person sitting on a chair on a frictionless surface.

3. instead of air it's an endless field cinder blocks ahead of him.

the person reaches out, and pulls in a cinder block. f=ma says they each move toward the other while the center of mass of the combination of them does not move.

Now, if he throws the cinderblock behind him, he moves further forward - this would be analogous to an airplane propeller. or a fan in an open pipe.

If he, um, splits the cinderblock in two and places each half directly off to his sides there is no net force exerted on him by this. This is the fan in a T-shaped pipe.

the fan+pipe grabs air from ahead, moves this mass backward and then sets it aside. it's not a jet-engine, but it is moving the air mass toward itself and must be moved equally and oppositely.

I don't think it's essential to worry about how the air/blocks rearrange themselves after this - but if the blocks surround and jostle, that's just another effect layered in super-position over this one, and if we don't agree so far then it will only make things more confusing
Take the sentence - he doesn't like dogs. This implies that he has preferences and those preferences do not contain dogs. It is one thing to say the universe lacks consciousness, or that it is incapable of care because it is inanimate. It is another to give it a preference, saying it does not care about us.
Nothing, the top answer in the link covers that question trivially. The question on if twice encoded strings are regular is simply the more interesting one as it is not as trivial.
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html

Then we have metaclasses, abstract base classes and protocols.

Also Super and self everywhere.

Even more complexity with typing, which is necessary if you want to approach similar type safety to julia ie to make the comparison more fair.
Yes, outline is a tool used for people to cheat on paywalls. It's very handy for those that are into that sort of thing. Bad for journalists, great for people that like free content.
Apple cracks down on Facebook after it paid teens for access to their data
One Month (Learn to Code in 30 Days) Is Hiring a Freelance Writer
Looks like it's time to either fudge all my social media with unicorns and rainbows or start operating purely behind pseudonyms?
They sure got forbes...