skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company I founded helps companies increase transparency and controls for their end-users, make it more clear where your data is going and making it easier for you to actually make a decision on whether you want your data going to third parties

https://transcend.io/product
When you compare this to what Samsung just announced yesterday it's so hard to justify this device. I want to use it, but I don't think I could deal with the sluggishness of the UI (if that is actually an issue at launch), what will presumably be a poor build quality, and all of the other bugs that will likely exist.

I need my phone to just work. I love the Linux desktop, but I just don't see how they can get a new mobile platform able to compete with iOS or Android.
When the offering itself is practically identical.
I've worked somewhere where it was taking so much effort getting Jenkins set up. In the long run it would be better, but I couldn't wait months and months for the stuff that I got working in maybe 20 minutes with a .travis.yml file.

Disappointing to see this happen. I like devops stuff that covers 80% of your need with 20% of the work.
Not really. Google takes your data and tracks and manages it on their servers. Apple's take, on the other hand, does all machine learning and data-processing on the device itself which means that it never leaves your control. This could still be the case for the majority of that payment data. Even the current iteration of Apple Pay creates a temporary card number for banks so that they can't track user behavior across purchases.
Try searching podcasts by people or topics here https://www.listennotes.com
Yeah, I just tried googling again. I think last time I indexed too heavily on if pass supported this, now I see I just need to setup openpgp. That sounds promising. Thanks!
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How does any of that stop the data mining?

It's the data mining and the ad targeting that people want to stop. And the FB competitors could be mining data just as easily as FB can.
How to Make Any Plot in Ggplot2?
The software will (I believe) be a rolling release, so they only really have to get the hardware right before shipping.

What API design is there, beyond "Linux apps, probably GNOME with libhandy"?
Why do you have to create a shared folder for every user and group? You should be able to add any users and groups all to a single shared folder.
The only viable solution is #4. So long as Facebook can make money by targeting specific groups or behavioral features, their algorithms and advertisers will find facsimiles for protected groups, the vulnerable, children, or Nazis since this optimizes revenue and engagement in dramatic ways. Even the most well-intentioned actor -- and Facebook is very far from that -- could not win this self-imposed game a whack-a-mole.

One alternative to shutting off targeting altogether would be switching from a blacklist to a whitelist approach, where regulators provide the set of features or groups that are allowed to be targeted.
> Would humans still make decisions to take advantage if the incentive structures were built differently?

Human history proves that yes, they still would.
Web browsers let me upload a file without giving me permission as the "app writer" to trawl the filesystem.

In this case, the phone OS could provide a similar interface for an app to pass off selection of an SSID or Bluetooth device to the OS, without giving away other permissions.
I don't see a flaw in MMT. This short but very clear article by Devin Helton helped me:

"Why the National Debt is the Wrong Problem to Care About"

http://devinhelton.com/why-the-national-debt-is-non-problem
This is very common for German Wikipedia.

Once I had the idea for a project (never completed) to analyze the differences in pictures accompanying articles across Wikipedia's languages. The results were about what you might expect. For their respective articles on "Food", you'll find:

- English: a photograph of vegetables, meat, bread, beans, and milk

- Japanese: a room full of tuna at a large fish market, white rice, and water

- Russian: potatoes, onions, spices

- Italian: a 17th century painting of some food

- Esperanto: the cover of an Esperanto book about food

- German: bar charts tracking food prices (and no pictures of any actual food)

It's interesting how Wikipedia makes it easy to jump between languages, yet each language's maintains its own identity and conventions. I've heard people propose to just start copying photographs from English Wikipedia into others (which tend to have far fewer pictures), and editors for those languages asking people to please stop.
Putting personal data out there means... putting personal data out there, advertisers mining that data is a hard problem to solve. So can we re-orient the need for a solution to the injection of advertising into the platform? Lets solve this problem one step at a time and first stop those advertisers from leveraging the platform to distribute advertisements, instead only allowing them to mine the data to support ad campaigns. Once that's done we can look at salves for the data mining of social media, though I can't see that being possible without really resilient privacy enforcement.
"Worked."

How are they doing now?

It's a cats-outta-the-bag situation. What DOES makes invasive tracking a necessity is it works so much better than the free models that came before it. If you're not doing it, your competition is, and they're getting one up on you.

I don't think we have a free model that monetizes more efficiently than invasive tracking, so the only option you're left with is a not-free model. And for consumer-social, "not free" is a small niche (eharmony comes to mind as making it work, but even they bought all the free dating companies because the free ones were eating the market...)
Debit cards use the same networks (well, sort of, see https://www.helcim.com/us/pin-debit/ ) and charge much less (using a debit card with PIN from a large bank, $0.22 plus 0.05%)

https://paylinedata.com/blog/regulated-debit-vs-unregulated-...
Their actions and output were subpar. That's why they're losing market share and losing their jobs. I would expect making a joke of your job title is endemic of people who don't take their work seriously.
I'm building an app on listennotes right now. It's a fantastic API and wenbin provides amazing support!
> Nobody's forcing him to ...

I dunno, his wife did laugh at his startup job offer and divorce is expensive. Not that I feel bad for the guy, but it is often something like that.
For me the librem 5 is to android what GNU Hurd is to linux.
Why don't they do something more similar to what linux-libre is to linux to replace android rather than recreating the wheel.

AFAIK, android is open source, so why don't they just build on top of it while removing all non-free code/binary blobs from it.
I think we're focusing on the wrong thing here (broadly), which is mocking the guy making $1.2m a year. Yes, that's a lot of money, and almost all of us (myself included) struggle to see how to spend that money. But at the same time, I feel some empathy for that guy - he's increased his expenses proportionally and he feels trapped doing something he doesn't enjoy with no end in sight. I know I've moved my expenses up and to the right since graduating college and starting a professional job.

But all of this is a distraction - at the end of the article, the author speaks about the people who are happy and satisfied in their careers - and broadly it seems like people who have autonomy and a sense of purpose in what they do. I run a small business and broadly enjoy working, so things like the Financial Independence movement don't really make sense to me. More money, less money - this is not the crux of the issue. Engagement and autonomy are some of the keys to a fulfilling work life.
You can also read their published opinions to see exactly how they came to a conclusion.
What region of the US is this?
Emergent Coordination Through Competition
Here's a bad idea

1. Set a hidden service private key to all zeros.

2. Derive the public key from that private key (plus whatever else you must do) to generate the corresponding onion address for that all-zeros private key.

3. Type that onion address into a Tor browser and see what you get back.

If what I just described is not even "remotely feasible," then one ought to be willing to type that addy into Tor browser running on their raw hardware and rest assured there is no possible way someone is running a (probably nefarious) service running at that address.

Are you willing to do that?

If not, what I'm talking about is just adding some leading, non-random, nonzero bits to that "all-zeros" private key.

It's not a secure design, but if all people want is to send files that are too big for email it's no worse than using password authentication to log in to, say, msn.com.
Can you read while driving a car or a bike?
Exciting!

How long was this language in development? In what language was the compiler originally written in?
Good point. This could make for some interesting civil suits between family members if they can prove damages. This might make for a fun Netflix Original Series.
It seems like there are quite a few single-header C++ libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs

The people complaining about dependency management in Python should try doing it in C++; there seems to be half a dozen competing ones. And three times as many build systems.
+1 for the ListenNotes API. Easily better than anything else out there.
> Facebook should get itself some "machine anthropologists", to study the ant farm.

This is such a cool job title, I love it. I've long dreamed of doing this job at Twitter. There are so many blatantly patterned spam attempts and whatnot. I would love to work on analyzing, for example, the patterns in follower graphs surrounding templated bitcoin scam tweets.
And that power can only be applied before the law is passed, not after.
What you put on your tax return every year doesn't really reflect your actual wealth. Even in tech most people top out at ~$200k-$250k base salaries but you may vest and accumulate millions in stock RSUs that you don't sell in a given year.
I worked at a company that was completely turned around by PE. Improved culture, employee happiness, expanded business, etc.

They were in it for the flip sure, but there are different models for achieving this. It's not always a chop shop job.
It doesn't directly stop the data mining, it stops the profitability of allowing that data mining to the social network... and making that data mining less profitable reduces the value of allowing that to the network host.

If people can jump ship they'll slowly migrate to ad free platforms, then we can attack the issue of data-mining with regulations at the government level to force a cessation of private data collection.
Dow Chem must be owing TSMC some good explanation...
...6) Full transparency at scale. When someone buys an advert in a newspaper or TV broadcast, it is visible to anyone watching.

In contrast, thousands of adverts can run in FB environment without anyone but the target able to see -- completely under the radar.

Starting with #5 KYC, and adding a site where EVERY advert of every type is available for public inspection, along with its (verified) originator info and targeting parameters.

This would allow all kinds of scrutiny by journalistic and public interest groups (e.g., researchers tracking hate groups, etc.).

FB Is making a bit of a start at this publishing some ads, but until they get to the full transparency, it can't be trusted.

The full transparency would also be a huge benefit to researchers.

I'd also be happy to see it required as a regulation for all players, not only FB.
It is pure happiness.

I'm a curious person and I have a pretty intellectually stimulating job right now (so I understand the appeal) but heck; for $1.2 million per year, I would sit and stare at a blank wall every day for 5 years straight. I can even picture myself after finishing a hard day of hardcore wall-staring, I'd go home with a huge smile on my face. It would be like reliving the best day of my life over and over again for 5 years straight.
Google (youtube) is having a similar problem with pedophiles taking advantage of comment keywording to make it possible for people to find things that ostensibly should be banned.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/18/youtube-under-fire-for-rec...
There is also Drone for self-hosted: https://drone.io
The US has always had effective limits on broadcast speech, a history of bans on pornography and "communist" literature, as well as a number of quasi-self-imposed rules (Hays Code, MPAA ratings, Comics Code, "color bar" on radio and live music, etc). Effectively you could have very free speech so long as it was small-scale, but anything sufficiently controversial or offensive on a mass scale attracted attention.
The article claims the scalar exponential solution is O(1) - this is incorrect because the exponential of a scalar is still O(logN).
You're doing fine, but at $600k, you'd be taking home $300k, and then its all going on rent unless you downsize drastically and move out of private school etc.

I'm just explaining why the move would feel tough for a family.
It's not about yourself, but about understanding others. People grow up differently, have had different experiences, and hence have different risk assessments on who they trust and what they're willing to lose when that trust is misplaced.
can you clarify if this is sarcastic?

i actually can’t tell if you’re
1. sarcastic
2. trolling
3. honestly believe this
4. engaging in self deception to rationalize your own behavior
Un-American maybe, but they’re global. Here in Europe, their behaviour is highly controversial and I believe that regulation would be popular.
First congrats on being in a good position. It is awesome you have been able to accomplish it and still be only 30, you should be proud.

This is a tough choice, if you want to move, using the job offer to get you into the states, paying for relo etc seems like a smart idea IMO. Stay there for a year, gain some more contacts and friends in the area and work on your idea on the side a little. At least flush it out etc. You'll have to stay likely 1 yr to pay back your relo, but that would give you time to adjust after the move and do so on someone else's payroll. Then you can start your business.

If the idea is the business would be best kept in Canada than by all means it is doable to reject the offer after accepting but recognize it may shut that door for a while with that specific company (rarely for too long).

To be fair, I think you have a harder decision in many ways. It is very much so that when we are stable and things are going well that upsetting that can be the hardest. At the same time you are still in a really solid position as you don't have to worry about kids etc, so this is the time.

Guess I haven't been of much help, but the reality is no choice you make here is probably bad, you obviously understand the risks of being a founder so it is what do you want more?
"the app previously worked fine without the location information"

Maybe. Perhaps they fielded a lot of support requests related to getting Bluetooth and/or WiFi connectivity established before using the remote for the first time.

So it worked fine for this user, but didn't work well for less technical customers.
Let's just say there are worse ways of paying it and that speech in this website is limited as well

> Let's not conflate fundamental rights with programming languages

If you r_smart you should have noticed the jest in this statement
In the specific context of Facebook ad targeting, reports and investigations concluded that it was used as a propaganda channel in the US by foreign national agents attempting to tip the scales in the US Presidential election in 2016. "Why is that a bad thing" or "Why is that Facebook's problem" is a reasonable question, but it won't be seen as popular in the US if Facebook accepts those questions publicly as its business attitude.
I think a lot of people here don't realize how lucrative the sales roles in tech companies are - if you're good at it. Top sales reps often make more than than top level managers.

I estimate the top sales people are the highest compensated people in a company. It is true meritocracy, however. You are judged on a single metric more or less and the bottom of the group is dismissed without second thought.

You can make a great living on the engineer side of the operation and it's steady but you'll never see the highs of the top sales people even when you're at a point with stock and salary being many hundreds of thousands.

It's not a life for me but I have nothing but respect for the effort, time and relationship building great sales people put in. It's a hard, competitive ladder but if you make it work you'll hit high 6 figures and at times 7 figures for many years.
To be fair, a lot of existing media are in that situation right now too. It's why for example gaming magazines and strategy guides mostly died out; perfectly adequate (and often better) equivalents are available for free online. Same with a lot of other hobby magazines and what not. They don't offer anyone someone with a blog can't provide, and mostly only made money because it was difficult to get things published.
I’ve heard it given the name “Fuck you money” – the money you have that gives you the ability to just say “Fuck you!” and walk away from your employment.
As a happy PocketCasts user, what am I missing out on that Podcast Addict has? Looking over the Play Store feature list, nothing jumps out.
Compared to... a walled garden that relies on secret algorithms written by shady corporations that sell your data.
5000 iterations (of PBKDF2) was the original default, and last year it was increased to 100,100 iterations to keep up with hardware capabilities.
If this kind of work is interesting to you, you might like Daniel Lemire's blog (https://lemire.me/blog/).

He's a professor, but his work is highly applied and immediately usable. He manages to find and demonstrate a lot of code where we assume the big-O performance, but the reality of modern processors and caching (etc.) mean very difference performance in practice.
Thanks for creating listennotes! I've found it very useful when I want to find a bunch of interviews of the same person on different shows.
I think you make a good point, and broadly agree with you. I think the problem with Elizabeth Holmes (vs. the traditional tech founder) is that she's in biotech, where the stakes are much higher and the industry is much more controlled. It'd be the same if she was in the aviation space. If she ran a SaaS platform, this wouldn't really be a story - it'd just be a crappy place to work, and a service that's not ever properly implemented, and there might be some level of fraud at a financial level, but nothing as bad as what she did. A business CRM breaking is bad, but not as bad as giving inaccurate medical results to someone leading to a misdiagnosis or worse.
It's more of a trajectory estimation.
Can we be clear on this, please? It's inhuman to hate another for their origin or religion - not just un-American. This problem isn't about whether or not you're a good American, it's about whether or not you're a good human.
Do you know of anyone that has used this strategy in production?
IIRC, it's believed that the Moon would eventually leave the Earth's orbit, if not for the fact that both the Earth and Moon will be destroyed by the Sun going red giant long before that would happen.
Fortnite Maker Pulls Ads Over YouTube 'Paedophile Ring' Claims
A few or a lot?

I don't wanna be condescending or saying i'm better in any way. I have learned a lot over the years and grew.

I have never thrown trash on the floor but that is thanks to my mum and her 'teachings'.

My biggest issue with this is not necessarily that we kill our environment (worst case we 'used it up' we die and it might just come back) but i never stooped learning or being critical about something. You see so many people who got stuck and lots of those people got stuck on different things or habits or lives.

It took a long time and lots of rethinking about things, what if those people (few or many) will never reach this necessary level and we (the 'other') have to force them through zeitgeist / laws / punshiment?

Even if you have everyone reaching that necessary level, you will always have people in between. Shouldn't we start thinking on teaching live skills relevant for all of us?
Do you think being a skinhead is a requirement for listening to a skinhead band?
If they are smart, they will have their margins adjusted to support a niche device. There are a few people (including myself) that are willing to sacrifice a beautiful UI for all the good things that go along with a user-respecting OS.

Also, they have a lot of time. I have made a few UI's myself back in the DOS days, before they were always readily available. First I would make it work, then I would make it look good.
Is that number for 30 years? If you’re retiring early you need your nest egg to last for 40 or 50 years.
It's starting to become a cliche (which might be a good thing), but building datasets, cleaning that data and validating that data is the hard part..by far. The actual machine learning is quickly become a commodity.
This story immediately becomes more interesting if an advertiser figures out a way to exfiltrate Facebook's graph of who it thnks Nazis are.

... but in general, the ad networks are architected to make that kind of exfiltration as difficult as possible, since it violates the privacy constraints users assume.
How traceable is buying through Aliexpress? I bought a couple of LoRa modules there last year.
I never heard about this language and it looks impressive on the paper. Keep up great job! I'm waiting for open source release to give it a try.
This same pattern happens with 'dying' ERP software. The users aren't going anywwhere, unless you for ce them.

It takes years and millions of dollars to switch ERP platoforms.

Buy the company for...what a year or two (or even less) worth of contracts equals.

Fire all the developers. Keep a skeleton support staff. Fire sales/marketing. In-house everything else. Then just keep getting paid by customners until they all finally go away.
Normalizing Man Page Section Numbers in Solaris 11.4
That's when they sleep so it might be hard to break into that market.
They'll do that regardless when the time is right.
I wish Science vs. kept the sort of quality from earlier episodes when they were either not on Gimlet or had just come to Gimlet. They lean pretty heavily on narratives now, and while it may be entertaining, it's getting further and further away from science—or even minimally analytic.
Heh. One of her methods for learning a new language sounded very familiar.

> Even she was bored with the fabricated dialogues of coursebooks, so her favourite method was to obtain an original novel in a language completely unknown to her, whose topic she personally found interesting (a detective story, a love story, or even a technical description would do), and that was how she deciphered, unravelled the basics of the language: the essence of the grammar and the most important words. She didn't let herself be set back by rare or complicated expressions: she skipped them, saying: what is important will sooner or later emerge again and will explain itself if necessary.

Certainly sounds like my experience reading some code. Moreover, the more familiar you are with the language itself, the more transparent different dialects become. (Makes me wonder if she could understand Scots)

As well— the growing ability to read and generally understand some code in a language unfamiliar. IE, for a C expert, D or JavaScript is probably intelligible enough to understand what the program is intended to accomplish, even if there are parts of the code or syntax that are less intelligible. I'm sure that's been written about enough by now.

edit: grammar