skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like it should be "obviously illegal", in the same way that it's illegal to market casinos, or loans to children, and illegal to market fast food to children in many countries.

Given this, the only reason this is able to happen is because it flew under the radar for some time and then governments take time to legislate. By the time it actually becomes illegal, there could have been years of exploitation.

How do we solve this? Assuming that governments are slow moving (there can be benefits of this), and assuming that there will always be people with more flexible morals who will happily build these products, how do we create a society where this can't happen?
Efficiencies of scale killed small business. People had the choice of patronizing small business or large business, and they chose the latter.
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Eventually you will own the car and the costs will decrease dramatically. My wife’s corolla is 14 years old, gets 30 miles a gallon, and costs about $250 a year due to failing sensors and a MAF replacement.

If I used Uber every time I’ve used her corolla in the past 10 years it would far outweigh the cost of gas, insurance, and fixing the car.
Great now I can quote somebody about why I think technology is evil who isn't the Unabomber thanks.
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Presumably you could sue the bank that is using the AI to make the loan decisions, or is there something I'm missing?
That is a complex question. Your simple math doesn't work out in the real world. There is no way to know for sure that someone who you think supports you actually does and will vote. Voters (and courts) look down on districts that are too irregular and a few will change based on that (including not vote for someone they otherwise like). The party out of power can run someone moderate and thus flip a few voters. When your party is in power you are more likely to stay home and not vote. All of these mean that practically your epsilon needs to be fairly large.

Note, the above is for a large set of districts. Gerrymandering does work well to keep one politicians in power.
The NYT article was written in 1970. However it is an OCRed article and has no currency symbol in it so it might be in Deutschmarks rather than dollars.
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> In fact, it's something I really appreciate here on HN, the tone of discussions is rather pleasant and on topic

I've been a member here since 2008, 10 odd years! It has been quite consistent, and an almost daily visit for me since joining. I don't know how they do it but I am glad that they do.
And it keeps the arms race in motion.
So essentially, when you used the credit card one time, facebook remembers it for future purchases and doesn't ask confirmation? Kind of like amazon's "one-click" option?
If it's an accounting service, make a new account/table named "Software test". Book-keeping was invented to spot errors. If you have a non zero balance in your "Software test" account you probably have a bug in the software.
Intel Names Robert Swan CEO
And you can choose to disable screening for numbers that are already in your contacts.
We have the capability right now to make cars that enforce speed limits on their drivers.

We do, in fact, make cars with audible / visible / tactile alerts when the driver exceeds the speed limit for the road they are on, but we seem to have no appetite for buying cars that take the final step to actually automatically brake, never mind requiring all cars to do this.

I take this as a very strong indication that overriding driver preferences as in 1-3 will not happen any time soon.
Doesn't strike me as any more valuable than 100s of other offers. https://www.fiverr.com/categories/writing-translation/proofr...
It could have been 10 years old even, the point is that they can use it to build better missiles. This can happen both because their missile were terrible or because now they can copy the solutions you used 5 (or 10) years ago.

unless that particular model was a certified crappy missile that could not work in any way and that was a plot the have them lose time there is no reason to give them an old missile.
I believe Watch is their separate page for video, and not the autoplay videos that show up as you scroll down your feed. It'd seem pretty surprising that consumers would repeatedly click on that page and get tricked into watching a significant amount of content.
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> how do we create a society where this can't happen?

An incidence of zero is a difficult number to reach in any category. Everything is about tradeoffs.
The Netherlands will always stick with Germany. We're a trading nation, and Germany is our main trading partner. Also, Rotterdam is Germany's largest sea port. We may lean a bit more towards the Anglo-Saxon model than other European countries, but we're still continental first and foremost.
Wouldn't this fall under all those rules about tracking children / those notices on kids sites that ask someone's age so they can stop tracking them?
What Facebook has been doing should be kept on check. Private data of teenagers for the past 3 years, targeting children less than 10, someone should really sue Facebook and slap Mark's face
That's a very fine bit of hairsplitting. The current intelligence organization is literally the same group that went through a reorganization in the 90's and renamed twice: first to the FSK, then a few years later to the current FSB.

So, your statement is a bit like saying "2019 Google doesn't exist" because it reorganized into Alphabet, and there's no more Google Inc, only a much more narrowly focused subsidiary named Google LLC.
Alarmist propaganda that happens to be true.

"Moreover, three of four children in the city under the age of six had immigrant backgrounds.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt#Immigration

"Even if all migration into Europe were to immediately and permanently stop – a “zero migration” scenario – the Muslim population of Europe still would be expected to rise from the current level of 4.9% to 7.4% by the year 2050." : http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-po...
Yeah. People have been saying it for a long time about tv. At least as long as I can remember.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/12/02/heads-up-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-tv-rot-your-...
> how do we create a society where this can't happen?

FB employees can and should protest. I've gone as far as refusing to work for Facebook or any other adtech firm, but not everyone is privileged enough to make that choice.
The only Facebook “thing” my daughters are getting (until they are independent enough to decide for themselves) is PyTorch.
In the context of Ethereum ecosystem, such as dapps or decentralized exchanges; this allows bitcoin to be treated like an ERC-20 token to interact with contracts
> The thing is that the apparent problem is that non-nerds are now allowed online.

Eternal September is forever.
When I step in dog turds outside I just wipe my shoe off in the grass.

if (dogTurdContact) {
wipe()
}

I'm sure this isn't nearly as much of a problem as it is indoors.
Here's how it works. A company like Cognizant gets as many H1Bs as it can via an army of applicants and subsidiaries in India to game the lottery system. Meanwhile, companies in the US that want to pay less for IT functions create job descriptions that are tailored specifically to H1B applicants (if you've ever wondered why there are mandatory requirements for a very specific set of systems experience and education, this is often why), then post those jobs only where they are unlikely to be found and tell American applicants who do manage to find them that the position only pays [20% below real market rate]. Now you've got a US company that can legally say they just can't find any qualified domestic applicants, an H1B-focused staffing company that has tons of people it can bring in and rotate through regularly, and wages that are depressed. Net result: IT departments at large companies that are 40%+ staffed by H1B contractors.

I've seen this happen repeatedly at clients you've definitely heard of and it creates a situation where there are plenty of Americans who would work these jobs, but the salary/benefits being offered just aren't competitive.
Is it really that bad? I’ve been reading some of the deep learning stuff and there are some pretty detailed ,lengthy explanations.
One time I did notice that An author copied/pasted most of their content from an obscure blog (90%)
and I was going to call them out but they did list the blog in their reference.

However I am still a beginner in programming as well as deep learning so maybe I lack the the ability to distinguish between real and fake experts.
source discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823
Feel free to post any other fintech ideas that I can add to the blog. The goal is to keep adding more.
If the US bombs you and rises strong check on naval traffic and frontiers it is not going to be easy. Overall missiles protect from other missiles.
What does "connection" mean to you in this instance? That's the sticking point here. If a "connection" is simply "I can see a post written by that person every now and then" well, I'm gonna go ahead and say ridding yourself of that won't actually harm you socially. I absolutely question self-defined "relationships" that are held together by mass broadcasts of carefully crafted messages. For me, that's not a relationship. Granted, that's not a decision for me to make, but regardless. I fear we've all redefined what a "relationship" is without actually considering the ramifications.
Any current Facebook employees care to chime in on what makes this company worth your time as an employee in 2019?
I propose a game, given a list, find a way that each item is not like the others:

- Kidnapping - It's the only action.

- Explosives - It's the only thing that is illegal to make.

- African Militias - It's the only one about using people.

- Unbreakable Encryption - It's the only thing that is used by regular people on a regular basis.

- Missile Guidance Systems - It's the only thing that's not unique.

- Private jets full of gold - It's the only thing most people would trade an arm and a leg for.
Another potential problem is that minorities are often more reluctant than average to let their genetic information be used in health research. It's understandable given historical issues but will probably lead to bad outcomes in the future.
Didnt someone do a summary of that book in like a single page somewhere? As in, there were good ideas but it could be summed up to a short paper. I can't find the link now.
Not one mention of <marquee>

/sad
> We, the people, are pretty powerless here.

Most US americans have been voting for Democrats or Republicans or not at all for decades. Of course the politics remain the same: Wars and politics that favor the richest.

Please, vote for the Green Party or another reasonable party in 2020.
isn't the minimum age for facebook use 13?
I would say that this is a good start. Another good asset backed token that is aiming towards decentralization would be MakerDAO and DAI

DAI is the USD stablecoin, overcollateralized by ETH and a variety of other ERC-20 tokens. And managed in a decentralized manner by MakerDAO token holders. A good experiment to watch imo
Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason you were trying to use Racket CS for this?

AFAIU typed Racket currently adversely affects performance on Racket CS (in certain cases) and pict3d looks like it's a non-base package written in typed Racket so it's likely not the best candidate for running on Racket CS right now.
As A.i. does more of the diagnostic work for doctors, the skills of doctors grown through accumulated experience will atrophy. Similar to how few people now farm, and traditional farming methods end up being generationally forgotten.
> "The Reveal reports that in one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees are recorded discussing whether or not to refund a child—whom they refer to as a "whale"—who racked up $6,545 in charges from a Facebook game."

I mean they aren't wrong. A person who spends that much money on a game would most certainly be considered a whale. Jesus, I've spent a lot of money on a game like Hearthstone but nothing close to 6.5k!!!
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Being showered with wealth?
You have to have a focus on strong families. If the child has parents or guardians who are aware of what they're doing and will stop them from doing it then there wouldn't really be a problem in the first place at least with five year olds
Solid self-awareness here by the team at Streetmix.

It's touched upon in the sentence;

"Discord, unlike Slack, is not as well-known in the corporate world. Although marketed to gamers as a voice chat alternative, its core service (much like Slack’s) is the chatroom."

Slack is a pretty solid solution for large enterprise teams, needing support for different parts of their organization. It's akin to a 'living wiki' of sorts.

Discord is much more ad-hoc, and less feature rich, which makes it a better place for smaller teams with a need purely for communication and coordination.

There are great collaboration tools that I could envision discord working with, for smaller teams. Like VSCode's Code Share.

My critique of these services in general comes in the same flavor that my 'open office' argument does. Lines of communication are critical, but should be used judiciously. Everyone available all the time for conversation and questions, without recourse, can lead to the type of environment where everyone holds knowledge in their head, instead of writing it down, or documenting it.

I've always believed that the best tool we have now are scheduled, web-based team meetings with screen sharing. They have to be scheduled, and one person is always leading a topic. It's targeted, and there is usually a goal. Concise. I've always liked that.
> Total Memory Encryption (TME) ... uses a single, CPU-generated key for all of memory; users can control the usage of TME in the boot-level firmware. A new standard ... MKTME ... supports different encryption settings ... at the page level, and more keys. Different keys can be used at the same time for different memory regions.

While using multiple keys has legitimate advantages for the user, it's also a step towards unbreakable DRM and other malware. It's easy to think about how a new technology is useful, but it is prudent to also consider how the technology might be used as a weapon.

Memory encryption has obvious niche uses, but seems slightly outside the common threat model for most people (users). The more likely use-case (for the average user) is probably user-hostile: DRM, "Denuvo"-style tamper resistance.

edit: Forgot to mention: the single-key variation (TME) can provide a lot of the user-focused benefits, without the DRM proliferation risk.
Well no one knows how to get to level 5 since it doesn't exist yet. But there doesn't seem to be any theoretical reason why maps+vision+radar can't scale to level 5.
The events is an interesting one, there aren't many alternatives if you're setting up a private event and IIRC the facebook event experience was good.

I also think "there's nothing wrong with messenger", I don't finds its experience loathsome like Facebook. That said, I also don't "love" it any more than Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage etc. It'll be really interesting to see how the unification of messaging works out - they could "Facebookify " it, I wonder how people will respond if there's a stronger focus on ads.
> Well, Iraq and Syria would be two countries.

No, they wouldn't, Iran is in both countries with the explicit permission of the local governments, (like them or not). That's not what occupation means.

> And if they could, they would be occupying many more.

Given you first statement isn't true, I doubt this one is, beyond the cynical, "who wouldn't"?

> Iran is not some entity trying to protect themselves from invaders, they are a theocratic dictatorship and they want to spread their specific brand of revolution throughout the region and the world.

Look, am not a fan of Iran, but am also trying to be rational about them. Their strategy of having some proxy forces in strategic places is part of their defense strategy, this has been studied.

As for them trying to spread their ideology, sure, that alone doesn't seem to warrant sanctions, given the Gulf states and our relationship with them.

> Nobody wants Iran to have nukes - not Britain, Germany, France, Russia, China etc which is why they are all signatories to the treaty!

Right, and Iran has been complying with the deal, so what's your point? It's the U.S. that pulled out of it.

(For the record, am not sure why Israel should have unacknowledged nukes either.)
Free lawyers for everyone. How is that working out? Free doctors for everyone. Anyone want to guess how that's going to work out?
Doesn't DDG also exclude keywords it doesn't think are important? And it doesn't have a "missing `keyword`" warning below the results either, as imperfect as that was.

Ex: `libwacom huion gaomon`, missing libwacom in first result.
So kids who lack strong families are left to the wind to be exploited? Really?
Sure they do. The examples you gave are all for subjective meaningfulness - my teeth, my health, my pain and pleasure are all very meaningful to me, but at the same time I know they are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and I'm fine with that.
> no matter what it takes

Hopefully by the time you have kids wisdom highlights why the above is a destructive mentality. So many children are set up for anxiety and pain by their parents imposing so much of their own bullshit on them.

By all means adopt principles that align with your beliefs, but for the love of god numb your ego a touch and realize if you love your children you have to let go of yourself and free them as much as corral and influence them.

Be reasonable, understanding, compassionate, loving and unselfish, and see how 'no matter what it takes' holds up when considering those virtues.
A five-year-old is certainly not capable of understanding the significance of such a decision, and it's disgusting to exploit such weakness for large sums of money.
Chinese engineer charged with stealing secret material from Apple
What about offering more perks/options for whistle-blowers? I suppose the financial gain of whistle-blowing something like this is rather low... while the person will likely be barred from working at a lot of places (referring to an article on the Frontpage here a few days ago).
As a fellow bootstrapper, I loved being a transloadit customer back in the day (old product we ran). Amazing video encoding product and awesome customer support over Skype. Thanks for slogging through the grind!
Anyone know if the credit card from Facebook "Causes" disaster relief donations are also saved as part of this one-confirm-use-many?
I'd be happy to discuss all of this with you on the phone and help as best I can. All of my teams are remote.

(I believe strongly that society should forgive and that former addicts suffer from unfair stigma.)

You can reach me at the address in my profile.
I find my smartphone is incredibly hard to light and always goes out unless I draw on it really hard. Also, until I switched to a brand that used USB-C for its charger cable I seemed to put the wrong end in my mouth the first time every time.
Yup.

And stock investors often aren't much better.
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After posting I checked the dates from memory vs shuttle launch dates from Wikipedia, and this would have been some weeks before the launch ; so I wonder if in fact their job was to drop into the various emergency landing areas and just do a check that everything was lined up just in case; otherwise it'd be very costly to have teams in situ at all of them.
What's the strategic advantage of blowing up the NYC harbour? Most probably none.
> How do we solve this? Assuming that governments are slow moving (there can be benefits of this), and assuming that there will always be people with more flexible morals who will happily build these products, how do we create a society where this can't happen?

This is something that happens all the time in all sorts of industries. It's sort of the thing that happens with free markets, people try various things, some are positive and some are negative.

So how do we not throw out the positives when mitigating the negatives? The answer is well known but imperfect. Open and public debate, journalistic investigation, political action.
Telegram bot to test protocol storing public keys on blockchain
While TOR represent the worst kind of the variances of inter-packet delay of all network topology, the devil in the details is compensating for the largest “single-hop”-like variance.
Thank you, now I know.
What exactly do you do to verify that whatever you backed up was indeed backed up bit-for-bit and that the backup medium didn't just report success even though it didn't get some data stored correctly? Do you verify every backup using some tool? If yes, how long does that take? The reason I ask is because so many sites talk about the benefits of backing up regularly, using backup rotation and retention policies, etc., but they usually don't talk about verification of the backups themselves. Even many popular backup tools don't seem to handle this part (sometimes due to complexity introduced by buffer caches).
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There will always be kids who don't get a strong family, whatever you do. You can certainly reduce this sort of thing (with adequate parental leave, financial parental support and broader societal compassion for parents (hard!)) but you can never reduce it to zero.

Because these children are the most vulnerable to begin with, they are the reason protections are required in law against e.g. marketing gambling products and junk food to children.
TV isn't the same, as it doesn't contain the same tight feedback loop of reward and punishment as social media.
Those Popsockets are held with two fingers like a cigarette.
Just going to pick on a few things you mentioned:

The Iranian people overthrew the shah who ruled for ~38 years and whom the US supported, and seemed to choose theocracy. (I say "seemed" because I'm sure there are two sides to the story. From the little reading I've done, it seems there was significant support for the theocracy.) They now hold elections, though I don't know how free of meddling they are. So they've gone from a US-supported dictatorship, a feeling much of the Middle East and Latin Americas knows, to a partially democratic theocracy.

Negative attitudes towards homosexuality are common across the Middle East; they're not unique to Iran. Neither are negative attitudes towards Israel.

I don't know enough about Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran supposedly building nuclear weapons to comment, so I won't.

For those interested, I highly recommend reading Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East"[0]. The author was in Iran during the revolution which overthrew the Shah and offers a fascinating perspective into the Iranian people. The rest of the book is proving to be amazing too!

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Great-War-Civilisation-Conquest-Mid...