skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just stop using Facebook. Stop putting the onus on Facebook to fix all of this. We just need to stop using it. There are alternatives out there; start using them.

These articles are always going to come up. We're going to act surprised for 5 minutes, and continue to feed the machine.
Is an answer of "yes" inconceivable?
I thought nowadays the recommendation was the 3% rule.

Still absolutely doable.
Yes! I can't put my finger on exactly why that is, but something about how it's said in Swedish makes the soundbites even more batshit insane. This is some new level, I've never seen this level of incompetence with these high level stakes.
"at the very least"? No i think the third option is having an advertisement model that simply feeds users ads without having to abuse their data for 'optimization'.
You should have already been doing this, before the acquisition. It felt like Travis had been on auto-pilot for a long time. It was painfully obvious to me and our team that Circle is actually hungry and constantly innovating and wanted our business. We moved one project to Circle, waited a bit, and then moved everything away from Travis. Don't regret it one bit.
I wonder how many people pre-ordered the phone. It might be a small-enough order, that they don't need to reserve parts with any one supplier as any decent supplier could fill the order on short notice.

I'm hoping the experience and feedback they get from this product run will justify the economics for them to itterate and push out a new hardware version in the future.
Liberalism and the Invisible Hand
I feel the same, but at the same time I understand that not everyone feels that way, and that there should be easy ways for those people to not have to be subject to it.

Sadly any time this kind of thing gets discussed, the nuance gets thrown out and the discussion becomes either "ban all targeting" or "don't regulate anything", both of which are horrible ideas IMO.
I think if you had a properly planned tax so you could say this is fair and will fix or at least significantly reduce the risk from global warming then people would be ok with it. The present ineffectual stuff doesn't really achieve much.
Gimlet media was started by Alex Blumberg, who worked previously for "This American Life" and "Planet Money" (he may have started that one). These are both NPR shows as well as very popular podcasts

One of it's show is "Reply All" is hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. They used to host a podcast called "TLDR" on NPR (WNYC).

These guys are all super talented and deserve to be paid very well for the content they produce, but to say those shows and podcasters you like won't go to where there money is probably not 100%.
And that's exactly why they aren't taking votes on features. Your e-ink display would be a deal killer for people who consider video crucial. If you polled 1000 people for their ideal phone, you'd probably end up with 800 different models needed to satisfy them all. If you went with a majority wins voting system, most would be unhappy with the results. Design by committee rarely ends well.
I agree the purchase of Gimlet and putting shows behind paywalls is concerning.

That said, as long as the vast majority of shows continue to publish their shows as god intended -- as enclosures on an simple RSS feed -- I think podcasts will stay healthy and vibrant. I will not subscribe to Spotify for a whole host of reasons, and it would take far, far more 'available only on Spotify' podcasts to ever make me reconsider that.
Uber Launches Uber Rewards
I have my regular podcasts that I listen to pretty much every week and some others that I dip in and out of.

I just hope podcasts don't fall to the walled gardens, it's already happening with Spotify, BBC Sounds etc. They hate the idea of RSS
It blocks you from seeing the future. If they get money and no data, they're getting paid for who they are today with less insight into who they need to be tomorrow to keep getting paid.

The idea that data is "just sold to businesses" and can be substituted for its sale-value equivalent in cash is wrong, IMO. Serious insight, product directions, election swinging power, really big shit – are all emergent properties of data in aggregate like this that are somewhat unknowable until you actually get the data and see things unfold.

So what they're actually keeping, by choosing data over cash, is priceless long-term optionality.
Which makes it ironic that capital gains taxes can bite exercisers before they are actually able to be liquidated.
Reply to sibling since it’s dead:

>Then why do the laws not reflect the wishes of the public?

This isn’t a direct democracy. The law reflects the super majority of the representatives/senators or the majority of the representatives/senators and the president.

The entire purpose of that is to prevent small majorities from steamrolling in laws. 60% for legalization or whatever topic you want isn’t enough to make a federal law changes if the majority isn’t spread around all of the states as well.

Obama didn’t even want gay marriage when he went into office. People elected him again anyway. I think most of your confusion comes from the fact that you don’t understand representative democracies.
Your strategy doesn't negate the need for a password manager for all of your non-essential web accounts.
I debated a bit on whether or not this even needed to be written up.

Anyway, gist is that I wanted to do a linear gradient reveal over a complex background without Javascript.. and I couldn't find any techniques that worked.

At first, I tried something that didn't work as expected, then found out through a bunch of S/O threads that it also failed for others. The threads I read didn't have solutions to the problem.

I ended up getting it to work this way (in the article), so I decided to write about it on the internet in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

Hopefully it helps people that are running into this issue; if not, carry on.
Outline link below [0].

The article mentions at the end, "While he waits for deals, Mr. Buffett has plowed some of Berkshire’s cash into equity investments, including building a $39 billion stake in Apple Inc. as of Dec. 31."

But Buffett has actually reduced his investment in Apple recently [1], which is interesting if he's also sitting on lots of cash and doesn't have better places to invest it.

EDIT: found this explanation (also [1]):

"Buffett's assistant Debbie Bosanek said the shares sold were not under Buffett's direct control. "One of the managers other than Warren had a position in Apple and sold part of it in order to make an unrelated purchase," she said in an email to Reuters. "None of the shares under Warren's direction have ever been sold." "

[0] https://outline.com/wbZ3HA

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-stock-down-on-warren-b...
Trying to be responsible is the minimum you can ask of any human.
If you are interested in grading Sudokus by the difficulty of the human solving techniques required, you might want to check out the following two books:

- "Sudoku Programming with C" [https://www.apress.com/de/book/9781484209967] where a Sudoku solver and grader is implemented.

- "A to Z of Sudoku" [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+to+Z+of+Sudoku-p-9781847040008] where many human solving techniques are described and rated by their difficulty.
.. because it was bought by a Russian parent company who brought in restrictive policies. And, obviously, surveillance.
>> If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says

Bullshit. If someone earns $1.2 million per year, they can retire after 2 or 3 years. They have no right to complain. They're weak.

$1.2 million is the definition of eternal happiness. If you earn that, whatever emotion you feel in your life is called happiness. This emotion which their greedy brains interpret as sadness, my brain would interpret as euphoria.
People in developed western countries have been buying rainforests to protect the environment for decades: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/24/cantwe...

I'm not sure how it's being protected though.

OTOH the earth has been getting greener recently:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-are-making-the-gl...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171641.h...

http://www.keepmepostedeu.org/portfolio/growing-forests/
I can't find the $400k/year number anywhere. The census puts it at "$250,001" which seems like a fishy number.
Yeah, I was soldering little kits at a pretty young age. With proper supervision it feels you might as well have the kid really go for it, or have them direct the parent and lead them through the soldering process, while the parent performs the actual connection, showing proper technique and safety, including ventilation etc.
I guess it's hard to get around to the advanced features when so few people even bother to take advantage of the basic ones.

Documentation for most Go libraries I've come across has been pathetic compared to similar things in Python or PHP.

edit: Compare to something like Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/plot/intro.html?q=graph#%28part...
We thought of that a lot. But like our other baby, http://id4me.org - where we chose use use DNS and OpenID and mesh it into a federated identity protocol - email infrastructure is simply there, it's federated, robust, run by millions of servers, large and small, tested, filtered, pounded, drowned, abused you-name-it. That buys some extra overhead.
Signing up or putting in financial information is not the hard part, the hard part is the anxiety of constantly having a stream of money leaving your account every month bit by bit. We try to avoid this as much as humanly possible.
I wince at the idea of seeing "just sell an organ" become part of the financial responsibility / get out of debt spiel pushed by capitalism.
Why can‘t ads (again) be targeted to content and not users? If I‘m reading an article on a Tesla I might be interested in what VW is offering instead - and might not be interested in that headset I looked at a week ago.
America's Rise of the Boxy, Stumpy Apartment Buildings
Google Play Apps with 10M Installs Drain Batteries, Jack Up Data Charges
That's fair, but I know of no aluminum I-beams used in modern highrise construction which is the context of my sentence.

Truss roofs are made from steel of various shapes, even I-beams, and wood. I'm only asking for clarification if all truss designs regardless of material are problematic in a fire.
Or they'd have to run the software on their own machines.
You are correct, but if this guy's an HBS alum pulling in 7 figures on the buy side, then he and his family are living the Upper East Side lifestyle which means:

Private school tuition - $50k/kid/year
Additional activities such as tutoring, sports, etc - $10-20k/kid/year
Mortgages+fees or rent for a 1,500 square foot apartment in a doorman building in East 80's - $75,000-150,000/year
Mortgage or rent for country home in Hamptons or Litchfield County - $40,000-100,000/year

Literally half of his income is going to be taxed as an NYC resident. So he's got $600k of cash flow and if he has 2 or 3 kids, the very basic fixed costs of housing and schooling are likely taking up about half of that. With the remaining half he has to pay for food, vacations, cars, clothing, etc, and anything left after that will get saved.

To be clear, nobody is making this guy do this. Nobody's forcing him to "summer" anywhere, nobody's forcing him to enroll his daughters at Spence when PS 6 is free. But at the same time, this is a guy who came up through a system in which preppy affluence was the chosen lifestyle of his "me 10 years from now" role models. As easy as it is to mock the concept of anyone being "trapped" when they make 1.2mm a year, the truth is that stopping his current job would be profoundly disruptive and stressful for this guy, his wife and their kids. So I get where his wife is coming from when she laughs at his mention of the startup.
> Nudging is okay in my book if you're benevolent and aiming to make people's life better.

"Better" according to whom?
Facebook and your cable company are similar in that they both offer a compelling (for some people, at least), yet unessential product.

in these situations, you vote with your wallet by no longer using the service. there are issues with the libertarian "vote with your wallet" theory, but this is not one of them.
You can have a binary format that's self-describing. It's important to understand all of the independent parts that go into a format.
The happiest people I know aren't religious, but they have strong personal philosophies born out of healthy relationships and education. We don't need religion, we just need a healthier culture.
You're assuming not working/retirement = happiness, which is wrong.
The infrastructure and delivery is just fine. You can start a podcast easier than ever now. The difficultly is in creating good content, not serving mp3s and RSS.

Discoverability is certainly a concern, but only because there is _so much_ good content out there. I find out about good podcasts via word of mouth much more than any directory or online source.
This will be the downfall of this device. The kind of work required to provide a UI experience that even remotely resembles that of modern smartphones is a monumental task. It's one of the reasons desktop linux lags so far behind: the folks who have the time, interest and ability to do this work are not interested in using the platform.
An android version would be so nice...
You're right that you can't just dive head first into a religion. I was raised Catholic, but I don't identify with that at all anymore. I was atheist for a few years, but recently I've been reading Tao Te Ching and I've really taken to it. Religions don't have to be western and you don't have to believe in some omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent creator. It might be worth exploring some "religions" that you've never thought about before. I'm not saying they're going to cure your depression, but they may change how you see the world.
Yep, my company's web filter using opendns is blocking this website. Looks like it has been flagged as malware.

"This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."
Yeah totally benign, the only ones guilty of anything is that awful contractor. I just wanted to point out that there was more to the story than a police report over emails.
Couldn't agree more, and the real problem is that Facebook (would be the same for any other company with a similar ad targeting model) is now in the position of arbiter of what is acceptable and what is not. Perhaps a punk white-supremacist band is off limits, but what about joining "maga" with "Infowars" with "Insane Clown Posse"? You'll likely be targeting many of the same people anyway.
Usually when someone mentions a salary figure it's pre-tax. $500k in NYC is ~285k post-tax.

If you have a family, a $1.5m house (which barely gets you a shabby 3-bedroom in a high cost city) will, assuming you put $300k down, be around $8-$10k/month in mortgage + property taxes + insurance + any hoa/maintenence, which is by itself 40% of your monthly take home.
Nazi imagery and information is prevalent still, such as History Channel's many Nazi shows, or Nazi mega weapons on PBS, or Science/Discovery which also sell many ads on Nazi-related shows. They cover the atrocities but also the many successes of the regime. I'm not surprised this programmatically translates into Facebook as well, i.e. Nazi information is not equivalent to skinheads. It's a tough problem to solve programatically.
It's not SSIDs that are used for location but the BSSID of access points around you. You need only 2 of them to get the location of a user with Mozilla Location Service and there is other providers.
There are still a decent number of places that don't accept AMEX. I ran into this at a shop in a high-end shopping center recently.
How does Libertarian "vote with your wallet" theory deal with essential products?
We're talking CO2 here. The US has not exactly stopped emitting as it got rich.
Kloudless Used a Private Docker Registry to Simplify On-Prem Deployment
In what sane business is 50$ a month over a free tier the deciding factor in choosing a CI system?
Don't these exist already? [1] Other than that, I can relate to the other comments of just doing away with social networks on the web and replacing it with real-life communication via talking, phone calls, emails, or text messaging. As I get older I realize how much I miss the traditional ways of communicating without being inundated and distracted by constant notifications from present day social networks.

[1] https://diasporafoundation.org/
So let's step away from the "Nazis" part for a second, and rewrite the headline: "Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in ____________ -- and Let Ads Target Them Directly".

Isn't this how it is supposed to work?

So let's go back to the "Nazis" part of this. Yes, Nazis, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and racists of all stripes are repellent to most of us. Are we agreed on that? Good.

How is Facebook supposed to differentiate between somebody who is an admirer of Nazi icons, and somebody simply doing research on them?

Is somebody supposed to be curating a list of what's "acceptable" for people to like and not like? Who's in charge of that list? What happens when those people leave and are replaced by different people?

What happens when something deeply embarrassing to Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook takes place and starts getting attention? Should that be on the list? And if somebody places it on the list, what recourse does anybody outside of that company have to remove it from that list?

Popular, happy speech isn't the speech that needs to be protected. Everybody nods when this point is raised, then we end up having this same stupid conversation again in a couple of weeks and people act like this time something is new and different and in just this case perhaps some light, smiley-faced censorship is necessary... but of course it surely won't get out of hand.

Sheesh.
Kebab (or train) case (foo-bar) is actually really nice to type and easy enough to read once you get used to it. It's nicer than using underscores because you don't have to keep chording the shift and minus keys.

As to mixing variable names up with subtraction, you put spaces in your math formulas? someVar-anotherVar*thirdVar is pretty unpleasant to read, so not being able to do that is not much of a problem.

Perl6's relationship to sigils (like $) is a bit weird at first, but is very consistent and "fits lightly under your hands" in practice. Suffice to say, sigils indicate context and constrain the type of data you can put in a container. If you want to refer directly to a value, you use a sigil-less variable:

my \the-great-answer = 42;

See the docs on varibles if you want more information: https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables
Q3 ends in August, not in 3 months. I agree it's still optimistic but that looks doable.
The original DNS specification said that could not be done, but it is legal as of RFC 1123.
I'd argue the rule should simply be that, the moment money changes hands, you can either tell me who paid you for a service, or you're legally liable for performing that service yourself. KYC for ads would then just be a natural consequence of this.
This. I think I have searched for Nazi-related stuff a lot in the past when watching documentaries or reading WWII books. I think this goes without saying, but I'm NOT a sympathizer of Nazi ideology. I just enjoy learning.

By this rationale, I should be in a hate crime watchlist already.
AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers vs. APIG Service Proxy
Actually being interested in skinhead bands might also have a legitimate scientific intention when studying political extremism. Intention and interest are very difficult to distinguish.
Sam Harris repeatedly (ad nauseum as is his style) talks about his economic decisions and I'd be very very surprised to see him sell out.
It’s just a start. The podcast world will continue to be very fragmented.

There are some small consolidation here and there. There are a few podcasts becoming paid / subscription based business. But most podcasts will be niche , small , and free. More fun people will start their own podcasts :)
Well, I can tell you my experience. Over the last few years I've taught myself just enough PostgresQL / Go / JS / CSS / HTML to be able to put together a rudimentary CRUD type taskmanager app.

Because there are no real learning resources unifying all of these elements properly, I tried finding resources that taught me as many elements at the same time as possible.

For JS I found the modern Javascript tutorial to be the best: https://javascript.info/

For CSS and HTML I used this course by Todd McLeod: https://greatercommons.com/learn/how-to-create-a-website

For Go (which is what I started with after learning Python. I only knew basic programming concepts then and the course was in-depth enough) I also used a Todd McLeod course: https://greatercommons.com/learn/golang

For a combination of Go, PostgresQL and HTML / CSS (but very little of the latter two, really), I tried Jon Calhoun's excellent course on web development with Go: https://www.usegolang.com/

If you are anything like me, be prepared to spend months on this one. He is very thorough and doesn't do a lot of hand holding

Once you've worked through all of those, you need to just keep throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks. Try to make something, find out the billions of specific cases none of the tutorials you used so far covered, read a ton of stackoverflow, realise your app sucks, start again. Rinse, repeat, for years, if you are working full time next to this.

Most rewarding thing I've ever done, but there are times when it gets so frustrating. You'll be struggling with some concept for absolute ages, until you find some no-brainer solution that nobody ever mentions on Stackoverflow. It's quite bizarre how that happens.

I'd also stay away from JQuery, ORMs and any of these big convenience tools. You need to learn the things they abstract away first. After that they can be useful for quick prototyping.

I understand your desire to tune down the noise, but it's very hard to do that when you are trying to develop a web app. It's so easy to just say the word web app, but when you say "PostgresQL backed, Golang, Javascript, CSS, HTML app" it suddenly sounds a bit different, doesn't it :)

Obviously that's just the stack I learned. You can just go Node.js all the way through the stack, but that never sat right with me, I had a broader curiosity about the different programming languages working in unison.

It's also worth noting that I am still absolutely terrible at any coding and just can't believe the kind of solutions people come up with online all the time. The learning curve is endless, but once you get something working, it's the most rewarding thing in the world.

Oh and lastly, don't trust everything people say on Stackoverflow. A lot of solutions are incredibly specific and often not even the best way of going about it. It's worth comparing a few posts each time.