skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data Classes for Java
https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html
It does, but Chrome ignores it. I have no idea about FF, since I have developer FF, and it had dark mode before OS X did. (So, I presume it also "ignores" it, since it was dark when the system wasn't.) But AFAIK, FF dark mode doesn't apply to the controls within the page, only the browser chrome.
Advertising was not made for OP. It was made for people who do not see the difference between ads and search results. It was made for people who impulse buy to improve their mood. For people who care about pictures, not stats.

Personalization tech for ad tech is top of the line. Really pushing that part of ML forward. It drives the internet with billions worth of profit. Ad tech companies can know more about you than intelligence agencies, and sometimes they are one and the same.

Targeting is changing how people vote. It is influencing social mobility. It can turn startups into money printing machines. It is not something you can debunk in a single blogpost, just because it does not apply to you.

You are the vocal minority.
Google is different. If there are places where programmers are actually worth that much, one of them is google.
Any good resources on developing that kind of understanding? What sorts of things would a web developer need to learn?
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (2009)
It’s not about being big just willing to spend the money on a business support plan - 10% of your monthly spend with a minimum of $100/month.
Looks like Outline doesn't work for WSJ anymore. Does anyone have a non-paywall link? I'm unwilling to pay for the Wall Street Journal.
Dark mode on any Mac display results in massive reflections -- like a mirror -- unless you work in a near-dark office.
It's also hopeless. In the contemporary political climate marking anything other than alien anal probe stories as fake will bring condemnation. We (and other nations) have a President with tens of millions of supporters who contend daily that the coldest, most objective of facts is fake news. And let's be honest, even the center has trouble challenging Trump sometimes because often there's some kernel of truth buried deep in his ridiculous rants. You can't simply label something as fake without being credibly accused of bias; you have to wrestle with it on its own twisted terms, which is both a time sink and ineffective.

If removing fake news was just about censoring lies, it would be easy. But fake news is about obscuring the truth, which is something else entirely. Censoring fake news makes you the arbiter of truth, not the arbiter of lies. It's like the difference between not being evil vs being good. That's why the weaponization of fake news is so devious.

The only way to win is to not play the game. Facebook's mistake was pretending they could do actually something about it. But they had to say that because to admit that it was infeasible would be an admission that their advertising platform was less powerful and effective than their sales pitches claimed.
I'm not saying Java doesn't have other strengths. It certainly does! It also has stupid weaknesses.

Many of the popular design patterns are simply lambda. If you have first-class functions, they are trivial. But Java doesn't have first-class functions; instead you have to write a giant thing that looks like a class, and because that feels like a lot of work, it seems to deserve a fancy name like Observer or Strategy. But it's all fabricated work; the only reason you have to do it is that the language has this stupid weakness.

It's as though you were working in a language that didn't have lists. And one day you realize, hey, it's useful to be able to manipulate variable-length collections of things. So you look at a problem and say "Aha, this is exactly the place that we should use a Collection design pattern" and you go write the entire implementation of lists from scratch and feel satisfied that you did a good day's work. You tell all the programmers you know that there is this great design pattern called a "Collection" that they should all start using. You write books about it. You give workshops. You get really good at writing list implementations, because every time you need one you implement a new list from scratch.

When you tell a Python programmer this, she looks at you like you have lost your mind, writes a function that takes a list, solves the problem in 5 minutes, and gets on with her day.
Well of course. In society as well. It's called going viral.
I don't do quizzes, too much code to write to waste time on alpha bullshit. It's not up to me to prove either, plenty of people prefer C, plenty of them more experienced than you; calling them all stupid based on your quiz skills doesn't look very intelligent from here.
Ensuring a Level Playing Field for Rideshare
Apparently $230M
https://twitter.com/nwquah/status/1091496410392875008?s=19
The actual scientific article: https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epj... (has a pdf link)
Reddit also greatly benefits from this. I've occasionally looked deeper into top ranking articles on /r/news which sound questionable and multiple times it turned out to be completely wrong or grossly misinterpreted. Probably worse than Facebook given the speed of story submissions matters way more on Reddit than FB. So stories regularly have to be "corrected" with later posts (this happens daily on /r/nba too).

My favourite was the school shooter at Parkland being called part of a "white supremacist militia group" which got 15k+ upvotes, quickly hitting the #1 spot - which means also hitting /r/all.

The story (later the same day) completely discrediting his connection to the militia (despite police already saying during the timeframe of the previous submission that they found zero connection to the militia), got about ~250-500 upvotes and barely made it to the top, while having 1% of the comments. I'd bet the 250,000-500,000 people who saw the original article never saw the second (the sub has 2.5M subs).

I completely stay away from the overtly political subreddits but I wouldn't be surprised if 25%+ of the top stories on those are partially or entirely incorrect.
"So many people" likely trust business even less than the government, and this is about handing your DNA over to businesses and government at the same time, for funsies. And that last part is quite an assumption.
Well, if we’re talking about corrupt cops who will plant drugs, might they also lie about you consenting to the search? Maybe you’re better off doing whatever it takes to make them like you, so they are less likely make you the person they plant drugs on?

I don’t know what the right answer is, it seems like a tough call. I’m skeptical of people who confidently say “consenting is never the right answer”.
I was actually going to pay for a subscription to Overcast even though you really got no benefits from it just to support a great product.

Then he introduced ads and his custom built ad platform was so good that I think of them as a feature that I would keep on anyway and he’s making money.
many americans found it profitable to own slaves 200 years ago, that doesn't mean chinese people should
Done a few more rounds than I realised. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gimlet-media#section...
Drivers are not insured. Vehicles are insured. You think self-driving cars won't need insurance?
Or aim the laser at another drivers rear window and tell that idiot to slow down!
Most of my friends are in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering type positions. Their interviews are not even as broken as the software industry's. What kinds of jobs are your hardware and mechanical engineer friends applying for? Are they "tech companies" or, say, defense contractors like Boeing? If the former I can easily see them having the same broken Interview process. Tech companies are just generally shit at interviewing.
Neanderthals were sprinters rather than distance runners, study suggests
Aren't companies that try to sell you stuff using the same (manipulative) optimizations?
That's interesting. Magnetic reversals actually take some time to complete (a few thousand years). If it changes slowly enough, if animals navigate through a learned magnetic field rather than genetic instinct, they'd do fine.
This seems fallacious. The whole reason for that "more expensive targeting cohort" becoming available after tracking is its increased relevance. Otherwise, everyone would be getting the $100 ad in the first place-- the $10 ad would simply be uncompetitive!
And because Buffalo's a long way to drive to see a pro hockey game in person?
There are more than 40000 individuals in Google in SV working to stalk you 24/7 and monetizing the data with different teams thinking up more ways and means to do it, other teams working on thwart any regulatory or other challenges to ensure business continuity, other envisioning a future in which they can grow this business unhindered.

This is an entire organization devoted just to this, and they in turn enable ecosystems of hundreds of thousands all interlinked driven by profit.

Yet on a technical forum which probably has a large proportion of people involved in this intimately as their jobs we do not have informed discussion, instead we pretend as if its not happening, or a one off by a 'misguided program manager', or the motives are 'benign' or unquestioningly accept self serving attempts to 'normalize' this surveillance dystopia.

This is an insult to informed discussion and enables an environment and discussions where blatant bad behavior is consistently overlooked and control of standards that benefit toxic business models are glibly handed over without scrutiny, skepticism or challenge. And then when one day one wakes up in dystopia some will wonder how it happened, this is a culture of delusion.
> Their students continue to be mostly well-to-do young people aiming for a higher career; be that administrative, educational, theological, medical, legal, or academic.

That's very high-sounding, but at least in the US it's mostly just seen by huge swaths of high school students as High School Part II; the natural next step before getting a job.
Some British organizations still seem to believe the empire is alive and well.
Students design $1.25 piece to help prevent B-2 stealth bomber emergencies
I wouldn't say OP is a vocal minority; certainly you've heard your non-techie friends talk about the ridiculous recommendations these algorithms have wrought. I'd like to think that this is the majority, and the minority who can't tell an ad from their search query would make those impulse purchases even without ML. You're just swapping out their random impulse purchase with a different impulse purchase, and neither side knows why they met.

The key point in this blog post, I think, is the ineptitude of ML algorithms.
I knew that wasn't right.. oh well. I haven't been to one in a long time (it's not convenient for me to go anymore)
Did you know that most enterprises who had "tried" gSuite actually switched back to Office? Office is very much not under threat. By many estimates, Office revenue is over 20X that of gSuite and growing. I agree with you that a lot of young people grow up with gSuite because Google has done a fantastic job getting gSuite into schools and colleges. But when these young people go into corporate America (which is a lot bigger than just Silicon Valley), they quickly have reality handed to them, which is that most real work is done in Office.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/g-suite-vs-office-365
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/google-says-recording-1b-per-q...
Because that's basically the definition of the difference between introversion and extroversion: introverts "recharge" by being alone, while extroverts "recharge" by being around people. If you are an introvert and forced to have lots of people interaction daily, you basically don't have a chance to recharge.

My experience was basically exactly the same as subpixelated.
Are you talking about location history or search history? All answers below seem to be talking about location history.
Best counterargument I've seen on this matter. Until low reflectivity on screens becomes the norm, I doubt we'll ever see a default dark mode or the riddance of the light mode.
There is a gigantic market for basic office work that can be done in the Google apps, the Apple apps or the OpenOffice apps just as well as in Microsoft Office. Nobody cares if you think that isn’t ‘real’ work and if Microsoft thinks it's safe because they have the only product for ‘real work’ they are in for a rude awakening. They aren’t however, they have their own online suite that can’t do ‘real work’ either but works good enough for a lot of people.
> Couple things. Pinkerton's president Jack Zahran says what next, a game where Coke poisons people- well in fact, Coca-Cola has a pretty awful past and present of hiring "the pinkertons" of south america to murder and "disappear" labor organizers. That's something Coke lives with.

It's an awkward analogy because, whether you believe in caloric or sugar theories of the obesity epidemic, Coca-Cola is not a good guy either way. Quite a few people would say that yes, "Coca-Cola poisons mankind"...
Should we consider the time that you said the N word as an edgy teen in middle school? It's apart of your history.

Different unrelated events aren't context.
But every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen...
Sheriff lieutenant arraigned for alleged bodybuilding while claiming disability
Exactly. People who proudly tell you that they have nothing to hide never seem to understand that they aren't the ones who decide whether or not they have something to hide.
When you don’t have a standard means of describing a company’s numbers like GAAP you end up with something like what WeWork does.

https://www.gfmag.com/topics/blogs/wework-works-bond-market-...

However, in its disclosures to bond investors, the company added back items like stock-based compensation, sales and marketing expenses, even general and administrative expenses to arrive at what it called a “community-adjusted EBITDA” of positive $233 million.
The core difference is philosophical, but building on that, Bayesians have built a new set of mathematical tools involving things like conjugate priors, posterior probabilities, credible intervals, and Bayes factors.

The result is a different way of practicing statistics, not merely a difference in interpretation.
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And all of that cookie tracking just so happened to catch up with me the day after submitting the survey? I had been performing related searches for months...
I am a fan of NIST. They seem to be pushing forward with less than average amount of bureaucracy. By definition everything should be public and they don't have any responsiblity for enforcement of the rules which might be a slow pitch to your question.

Drawing from my roots the Canada Wheat board was always surrounded by heated arguments and controversal decisions. There was the UN wheat scandal but that is more a matter of if you believe they are evil and not their level of incompetancy.
They received a significant amount of name calling due to their decisions and policies, but I can't recall any significant missteps in their application of the policies they set out to act upon.
eh .. not a lot. They touch on when the Pinkertons are first introduced and they also talk about one showdown scene between the main characters and the Pinkertons. I'd say two to three mild spoilers, but nothing that really surprises you in the game (it's a great game, highly recommended).

Until this article, I had no idea the Pinkertons were a real outfit, or that they're still around! In the game, your character(s) are bandits, and portrayed that way from the very first hour of game play. The Pinkertons may seem aggressive, but the players characters are never portrayed as malevolent. It is a western after all. Client Eastwood might have done some nice and honorable things as The Man with No Name, but he was hardly a hero.

This would be different if it were a household name like Sears or General Electric or IBM; very old 100+ year companies. I wouldn't be surprised of some lawyers at Rockstar were like, "Fuck...they still exist? Really?" The article shows how they were in other fiction (Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood) and I honestly do not remember them being mentioned at all. They're not even that big in RedDead2 really; just one of the many many people who want to kill the protagonists.

Maybe they're just suing so people still remember they exist. No publicity is bad publicity right? Besides if they didn't defend their historic trademark in other fiction, they've got no case here. Without constant trademark defense, a trademark can turn into a common name or generic idea. Bikini is one example (once a trademark), although there are counter examples (Band-aid is still trademarked even though it's commonly used as generic, where the correct non-brand term is Bandage or adhesive bandage .. or plaster if you're an Aussie).
Office on the web also has the same collaboration features now, and has had for years. Google's real time collaboration is slightly better, but I've worked in organizations that use Office and organizations that use Google. gSuite offline mode makes for many unproductive business flights (ie it simply does not work properly). Large spreadsheets choke up Sheets as you mention.
I'm not really sure, but the thematic break element (<hr>) after the last paragraph mentioning ruby makes me believe its not.
Dark matter is most likely the graviton flux that has been emanating from mass-energy since the big bang. It is literally the gravitational field itself. Gravitons are likely negative mass particles - this makes sense considering the zero total energy universe conjecture lauded by Hawking, Krauss, and others.
https://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-s...
"can screen people for genetics flaws and make hiring decisions etc. based on them"
Don't worry, by time we can accurately do this screening, the large push to automation will have already rendered most people unemployable.
Good. And I hope that Facebook abandons attempts to be the arbiters of truth and "facts". These initiatives to saddle social media public forums with automatic "fact-checking" are laying the groundwork for an Orwellian future. It's disappointing that more people don't see the dangers in allowing a small number of individuals to decide what is true or false for the rest of us.
Magnus Carlsen on the appeal of Chess and how to modernize it
I'd just like to point out that Ant, the only alternative to make you list that I've used extensively, is essentially a scripting system.
To me, this seems like a promisingly model for podcasters once startup mattresses, meal delivery services, etc, get tired of advertising with them. Patreon doesn't work for smaller ones.
Humans have always had to stay home/work in order to take care of kids. In my opinion every person is born with instinct to be useful and fullfil some purpose beyond hedonism.
Overcast has a free web player....
Its more about the emotional effort and control than the techniques themselves, else everyone could easily be a master salesperson.

Just because you can pick out the tactics doesn't mean you can't be worn down, or still end up trusting a person. Some folks emotionally mirror so much that they just don't end up having control in the situation.
Inverting colors is not the right solution yet as it affects colors for everything, including things that you don't mean to invert. Browsing Twitter? All of the videos and images are now inverted. Anything that is nice enough to be in dark mode now appears super bright. Inversion would be better if it was "smart" and applied to interfaces, not content.
Glancing at the graphs, I thought it was weird his alternate CPI exactly tracks BoL CPI changes. Turns out it’s because he’s just adding a constant. From Wikipedia:

> Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers

This doesn’t inspire much confidence in his alternate CPI.

MIT’s billion prices project is much more novel and interesting. They track prices from online goods in real-time to calculate price inflation. You can see some of the stats posted at https://www.pricestats.com
Most alternatives are much better than PowerPoint. Which isn’t surprising because it’s hard to be worse than ‘20 bullets on a slide’ PowerPoint.
I don't think this is accurate. The original announcement HN thread includes discussion of the source, which is linked and still online on GitHub:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550427
Does "Islamophobia" ring a bell? It's a term made up to demean anybody with concerns of how Muslims assimilate with western civilization and implies those concerns are irrational or even some sort of mental disorder

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/muslim-survey_n_31...

75% of muslims say abortion is wrong and 80% reject homosexuality. A large chunk also support Sharia law

now here's the huffington post and vox defending against islamophobia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/islamophobia-thriving-i...

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9822452/muslim-islamophobia-tr...

Seems illogical to me
Put a high speed rail from SF to Tahoe please! I don’t know why this hasn’t happened... so much traffic every weekend all the way to Tahoe. Put in some rail! Even if it was private it would be profitable.
> I'm not familiar enough with the denial side to evaluate their position

This is sort of third or fourth-hand, so don't just trust it blindly, but what I generally hear is that most of the real "other side" does actually believe climate change is real. They just oppose action because they believe humans aren't the cause, and almost any action we take will be a lot of wasted time and money that could be used better for other things.

The problem is that upon hearing that they oppose action, the "climate change is real" people totally ignore their reasons and lump them in with the crazy "climate change isn't real" people.
What is happening? Are we tacking sexual orientation onto random activities now? What's next? Bisexual solitaire? Straight geology? Drag racing?
iTunes on desktop is probably the worst Podcasting app
DB per service scales linearly while the shared database does not.
oh gotcha. Was gonna say if you were interested in full time roles it may be a lot easier