skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tool right, and from a usability, stability, security, and functionality perspective its second to none. No other program (for me) works more seamlessly between desktop and mobile.

It's messaging app is first class. Tons of features. I can type a message on a pc, and carry my phone with me and pick up where I left off.

It's groups allow people to self organize, at a scale I dont see anywhere else.

It's newsfeed is what you make of it. If you follow your friends you get what your friends share. If you follow ars technica, foreign policy, indewire, mit, open culture, priceonomics, saveur, you get ars technica, foreign policy, indewire, mit, open culture, priceonomics, saveur. Theres really no one to blame but yourself and the people you follow if your newsfeed sucks, or isnt what you want it to be. Follow better people. Fake news, tribalism, viral videos as the new opiate/soma of the masses, speaks to human nature and what we have become, not the tool that lets us mindlessly consume and push away our problems.

It's gmail, google news, twitter, instagram, youtube, reddit, all rolled into one. For a lot of people who want a stable product that works well, that does those things, it gets the job done. I totally think facebook wields its power irresponsibly at times, but blaming it alone for weakening democracy is like blaming roads for bad drivers.
The question is one of enforcement. Parliament can certainly order the production of documents, and send the Serjeant-at-Arms to threaten consequences if the documents aren't provided. That was enough in November to get the documents coughed up (one suspects that the target in that case had no particular incentive to test the limits of constitutional authority, given it wasn't his secrets he was being coerced over - a good excuse for handing them over would seem to be enough).

What's not abundantly clear is if Parliament can actually still carry through its threat of imprisonment for contempt, if the recipient of the order decides to face down the Serjeant. It's possible that the courts would swiftly issue a writ of Habeas Corpus on the basis that contempt of Parliament is defunct.

It's also possible that the European Court of Human Rights would consider legislative proceedings for contempt to be a breach of the Convention, but as actions of Parliament are outside the reach of the Human Rights Act (which makes the Convention directly applicable in the UK) they have no way of enforcing the decision even if they made it - and it would take months at least to get to the front of the queue.
Heh. This reminds me of something else with using Microsoft. My employer uses Office365 with a smart card authentication for email. In order to use the encryption features, you have to enable an activeX plugin from Microsoft. Microsoft Edge does not trust the Microsoft published plugin and disables it every time I boot up Edge (EDIT: I should note even when I attempt to enable it, it shows up as "disabled" on the extension tabs, and I have never gotten encryption/signing working on Edge). It only works on Internet Explorer (which Microsoft is actively trying to get people off).

I get the impression they don't do extensive Q&A with their products.
I just don't believe that he actually means any of this. Facebook's actions over the years do not indicate that Mark Zuckerberg cares about the privacy of his users.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiRBFWkRKs beginning at 54 seconds.

I don't really hear the pre-echo.

Actually I love that I don't hear compression artifacts in music or see them in JPEGs. Makes my gear so much cheaper. :-)
While I applaud this, and I'm generally positive about Microsoft's new stance regarding open source, I wonder whether they ever have, or ever will, apologise for having made remarks like "Linux is communism". They caused a lot of damage. It feels a bit disingenuous to just pretend now that nothing happened.
or target people who use large numbers with financial planning ads, for example?
There is not rule of math stating that + must always be commutative. It is commutative for real numbers, yes, but there are plenty of use cases mentioned elsewhere in this discussion where + is not commutative.
The BlockFi high-interest crypto account hoopla explained
They don't quite require that you log into your desktop with an online account to use the store, but the route around this is non-obvious.
I'll echo others who are saying that this could be because you are normally sleep-deprived.

Try to increase your bedtime slowly to 8 hours, maybe 9(but not much more than that) and keep at that for a while. See if there is any benefit.

It is unlikely that you are part of the tiny minority that requires less than 6 hours of sleep, so you should be sleep-deprived with only 5 hours.

Personal anecdote: my sleep patterns were very similar. Until I got diagnosed with sleep apnea. My body wanted more sleep – but the more I slept, the more apnea events I would have. So, I would wake up feeling like death, and with a headache, due to my brain getting starved of oxygen.

Not saying that this is your problem or that there is even a problem, but you could raise this issue on your next checkup. Maybe your doctor will have some suggestions.

Because it is weird, as you rightly point out. Trust your judgement.
Sure, but it still has niche uses.
And like smoking, it is addictive.
The government sent out that mailshot, not the remain campaign.

Same with the unbilled civil service time.

During an election should the incumbent party be billed for all the extra security for the Prime Minister, Chancellor etc?

We have party politics, sometimes its hard/impossible to separate government from party.
Did he ever even apologize for calling us all "dumb fucks" for trusting him? I mean, I'll never trust him no matter what, but Step 1 should surely be an apology.

Edit: Okay, I can add some more substance here, I don't mean to just take potshots or lower the discourse here.

Mark's historical attitude about privacy means that it is difficult to take any value or any real takeaway at all from a PR piece that is just full of "should"s. None of this means anything at all, and Mark is focusing on all the wrong parts anyway: "Encryption this encryption that" - this isn't the point. FB has been a platform for far-right dictators to steal power away from democracies, and encryption isn't going to change that. Attitudes need to change, not just to start encrypting things and then deleting content by default after a time lapse.

These are small technical changes that do absolutely nothing to address the real concerns here. There is no content in this post to address - it's empty, sidechannel distractions while saying nothing at all about the elephant in the room: Facebook's incentives are still aligned to let others violate privacy and to violate privacy itself.

Mark makes no comment about changing FB's incentives and so the "dumb fucks" thing still rings true.
The government doesn't need Facebook to get your data

You're only thinking of the federal level. There are many levels of government, and local governments from states and counties all the way down to companies contracted by the local dog catcher buy the data mined by advertising companies.

and has been for 30 years - you can buy lists for direct mail of people's name, full addresses, numbers, marriage status, estimated income, etc

But for 30 years you haven't been able to track someone's location on a minute-by-minute basis. Or in real-time in the case of buying data from a cell phone carrier. Plus a lot of other invasive information that hasn't been available until FB, G, and others weaponized the avertising industry.

We're not talking about public data. We're talking about companies selling private data.
The claim “often regarded as the greatest of all novels” right in the opening is so hyperbolically naive and unmatched by the general level of the piece that one wonders if some marketing person added it to boost up the clicks.

Even if one adopts the mundane definition of topping all time greatest lists put together by various organizations, I still think this would apply to War and Peace, as commented here Anna Karenina probably would be a better candidate.

People who make such claims should be forced to watch the first classroom episode in Dead Poets Society till they get the idea.
I see a few startups that are doing rent-to-own or get down payment help for equity in your home.

Some people will scoff at sharing upside in your home, but IMO it makes more sense than this.
That law exists.
I still think it's a useful exercise for people like me who learn best by implementing a thing.

Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc introduce a lot of magic for someone who is completely unfamiliar with the area.
As if the NSA wasn't part of the problem to begin with.
Even if he does care, you can't trust him to be honest or to think their behavior all the way through. The theme in Facebook's behavior is that they put profits over privacy, but also that they don't understand what privacy really means when they do try to respect it.
Which States Have the Highest Taxes on Marijuana?
> But how does it change anything related to how bad the product is

From OP:

> I hear real change from leadership

> Fb has invested hugely in protecting elections, possibly more than any single government. They have doubled that on integrity, etc.

> I think FB, and especially Zuckerberg, have done a great job responding to these issues to try and solve them.

You might think they're misinformed or incorrect, but you can't say they didn't address product/company issues.
Micro-houses are the future of housing for everyone.

The massive living spaces we have now are not sustainable. By 2050 if we are to avoid 2 degrees of warming we need to be emitting 2 tons of carbon per year per person: http://insight.gbig.org/targeting-2-tons-closer-than-we-thin.... The average American today emits 11 tons, whereas 2 tons per person is closer to that of someone living in Brazil or Egypt.

In climates where you need to heat and cool a home, carbon taxes will make heating and cooling the living spaces we have now financially impossible. People will drive demand for these smaller living options out of necessity. Additionally, as we make consumption less and less economically attractive people will have fewer things to want to store anyway, and personal vehicles will likely no longer be something the average person will be able to afford or want so there will be less need for parking and garages.
How do you know, if there isn't transparency?
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will shift to emphasize encrypted ephemeral messages
I would love for FB employees to explain to me how they justify that their product literally hooks fragile users to internet, creating chronic depression, FOMO etc etc.

To me, it is no different than Heroin given to a Junkie.

You just need to travel anywhere in the world and look at all the tourists spending their time Instagram-ing everything. On the other side of the screen you have fragile teens that get depressive because their life is not as good as the fake paradise that can be seen on Facebook//Instagram.

This is the culture that Facebook and "attention-grabbing" social networks have created. As an employee at Facebook, you directly contribute to that! Yes, it is a symptom of something more deeply broken in society, but you act like Heroin to a Junkie, facilitating the intake.

If we had to number this, I would probably put Facebook and other predatory attention-grabbing networks (Youtube is another one) in my top 3 of worst things going on in the world right now.
This should be the top comment.

Let's take a current headline: "Facebook is facing criticism for not allowing users to opt out of a feature that lets people look them up using their phone number or email address."

There are so many ways to explain how this could come to be and the vast majority of those would not be attributed to malicious intent.

It's not like PMs at Facebook are sitting around wondering how they can exploit people's privacy. They work on a massively complex product which sits on extremely sensitive data. Releasing a feature without properly vetting all of the ramifications (some of which exist completely outside of your purview or knowledge) is the reality.

Could Facebook have better cultural practices within the company when it comes to privacy? Sure. But that's a far leap from assuming that workers there are intentionally trying to exploit people's privacy.

I'm by no means absolving Facebook of the responsibility they have with regard to individual and global impact. But I imagine Facebook employees are aware of the amazing benefit Facebook has provided as much as they are the negative impact it's had. It's not hard to see how many people would believe the good outweighs the bad.
If you're interested in upgrading your models, also make sure to check out this Medium post: https://medium.com/tensorflow/upgrading-your-code-to-tensorf...
How is this gaslighting?
What's the connection between FB having to verify your identity and the question of brute forcing anything? I am 100% sure that brute forcing anything is 100% illegal. Using this as an "argument" in this discussion is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
I close my eyes and extend a single finger towards the general vicinity of my keyboard. When my single finger touches the keyboard, I know that it's touching the keyboard, even what part of the keyboard it's touching.

I seem to have built a mental model of the world that doesn't need the senses to maintain it. I can use a single sensory input (iiish - there's many neurons on the tip of my finger) to verify it.

That is not explained by the thousand theory of intelligence, or any other theory of intelligence we currently have (and we don't really have that many).

And, not to put too fine a point on it, a thousand years from now, once (and if) we exit the dark ages we are very obviously hurtling towards, we will look back upon these attempts to explain intelligence in the same way that we look today upon the attempts of alchemists to understand matter. With sympathy and a little pity.
I haven't read the article thoroughly but I suspect part of the data preprocessing step included centering and standardizing. Those must be the mean weight and height values.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729499

A comment I very much agree with:

> radarsat1 on May 19, 2016 [-]

> It's not even pedantic, it's just wrong. He's ignoring years of neuroscience.

> We know that the brain uses signals, and that these signals are composed of codes. We know that to interpret the world, certain information processing must take place. We are learning more about the exact nature of this processing, more about how neurons and even other fundamentals of the body code information and contribute to processing (e.g. chemical processes), but they definitely process information. We even know some of the codes.

> On the other hand, if the author wants to argue about the nature of what is information, what is processing.. he's going to have a steep hill to climb.
It's not super Google specific if it is supported by tensorflow. Yes there may be some obstacles to using it to in your home pc, but there should be at least a paid way to use it if you want in your own server.
But often a pattern matching switch expression would be nicer, if your language has such a thing.
They might want to finish up the "Clear History" feature he announced last May [0] first...

> "If you watch the presentation, we really had nothing to show anyone," said one person, who was close to F8. "Mark just wanted to score some points." [1]

[0] https://www.recode.net/2018/12/17/18140062/facebook-clear-hi...

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-privac...
I'd go so far as to say that there is no point in even bothering to read the article because of this.
Facebook has an /excellent/ cross-device graph that no has an alternative to. And its free.
When you modify a truck lifting it, it's bumpers no longer "mate" to car bumpers and may not trigger an airbag system or worse, intrude into the cabin of a sedan. It's selfish and ridiculous.
Benzodiazepine withdrawal can be unpleasant, but is very unlikely to kill. As far as I am aware, there is only one case of benzodiazepine withdrawal related death (which is not certain in any case).
> No they are not that hard to fly.

I suspect you have not tried hovering in a helicopter.

> autopilots really do work

There are actually very few autopilots that can hover. Not just because it's technically hard (the soviet Kamov helicopters could maintain hover back in 1980's), but also because of the certification requirements.

If a DJI drone hits a tree it's not a big deal. The story is very different when a helicopter does it.
>>Okay. So what's the evil end game of FB privacy?

You are looking at it the wrong way. It's not about Facebook's evil end game today. It's about what their current collection of data enables a future Facebook (or a company that may buy Facebook one day) to do. It's also about what malicious actors, government or otherwise, may do with the data if they get their hands on it, as they have, multiple times, in the recent past.

Today the data is used to show you ads. There is no guarantee that it will be used for just that purpose in the future.
And here I was expecting a way to record keystroke noise via a tooth recorder.
Is this the version with floating point precision errors?
There is something more to it: Slack is really popular and MS really wanted it on the store so they let them ignore the rule.
They will not. I can't find the link at the moment but I read an article about 6 months or so ago where, iirc, Steve Balmer and Satya Nadella where talking about Microsoft's open source plans and some of the history and made a remark that fighting open source "was the correct business choice at the time."
While you are of course completely entitled to provide this information to anyone you see fit, I still find the thought of a bank using FB integration for anything, especially authentication, abominable.

And the fact that FB has your data certainly isn't a justification for a bank using any kind of such integration. My pet store has my credit card data, doesn't mean I want my bank to use them as an identification provider or have any integration with their systems.

And if powerful abilities are what you're looking for, the mafia can also brute force anything out of anyone. So I guess... yay? That's a good reason for banks to use them.

The reasons you yourself gave in the "against" section are sufficient to disqualify them. I have a contract with my bank. Any 3rd party introduced in there is additional liability. When that 3rd party is a company with a proven track record of every shady practice known to man it just reinforces my opinion.

I'm sure there are banks to cater for everyone's tastes. I just don't see a reason why I would ever want to give my business to any such bank.
Interesting, I'll have to search. I was already planning to build my own with an ESP8266.
The only way forward for privacy would be the complete deconstruction of the facebook machine. There is nothing that can be done to salvage this beast. Don't be the last person to delete your account. We can turn facebook into myspace. All it takes is for you to let go of your excuses of why you still use their awful products.
This calculator is not written using Win32.

(Why the downvotes?)
Dose dependent maybe? Length of time on the antidepressant?
It would be as bad as lack of right to repair. If it happens , then I hope someone like Intel does the same to them.
We don't know, but people have been speculating that the death was faked in order to get away with theft and mismanagement of Quadriga wallets. Every new detail seems to suggest a scam and fake death.
It is possible to build balls of mud either with microservices or larger-sized services.

There are pros and cons to both.

But when "easier testing" (from OP) is said to be an advantage of microservices specifically...I am not sure what to say.

I mean it is not like every test has to test the entire monolith. And it is not like testing each microservice in isolation is always going to be sufficient.

It is entirely orthogonal. Of course a well-designed microservice is easier to test than a monolithic ball of mud, but a well designed monolith is also easier to test than a poorly designed spaghetti of microservices.

It is as if some people think "good code" and "microservices" are synonyms. No. They are orthogonal.

Industry is always going in circles. Fads come and go.

In many ways, Cloud Functions are very similar to a horizontally scalable stateless monolith backend. When you break up services small enough, the "monolith" arises again as simply the sum of what you deploy in an organization.
In American English, "guess what" is often used in a somewhat 'sarcastic' manner. Used before expressing annoyance with a continued state of affairs.

Example:

> "Guess what, Jimbo 'forgot' to pay his share of the rent again.
This reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
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Implementing an API Gateway with GraphQL: Resolution Strategies
> Citing the WannaCry and NotPetya malware attacks

Wait, did he just use Wannacry as a reason for more NSA involvement in cyber defense? Wannacry exists because of the NSA. Its exploitation tools leaked (as it always happens, even to the NSA or the Chinese spy agencies) and then others used them to create the highly-effective Wannacry.

So...thanks, but no thanks NSA! You're done enough already. Not to mention the fact that the NSA is actively trying to this day to sabotage security efforts both in standards bodies and in private organizations (see recent Simon and Speck controversy, or how they asked Yahoo to put a backdoor in their email servers, Dual_EC scandal, etc).
Hushing people who are pointing out the larger context isn't helping anything.

The root problem is not any one single company.
Other than the Nintendo Switch, not many options out there.
My guess is you want it challenging but not too hard.
Im fairly security conscious (conscious, as in I see it, but it doesn't mean I care...case by case basis). I use a password manager, all my passwords are separate, Im very careful who I give which piece of data to, etc.

On the other hand, my identity has been stolen 16 billion times by now. Even if it didn't, I own real estate, which means you can infer a hell of a lot of info about me by just looking up my property tax bill, which is public. You could cross reference a lot of data source and get way more than I've ever put on Facebook. Ironically, if you wanted to make my life miserable, Facebook is probably not the first, second, or third place you'd want to go to get the juicy stuff.

So yeah, it's pretty hard to care after a while. My credit reports are frozen, I post on social medias as if I was doing so under my first and last name, assuming they're public anyway, there doesn't exist any embarrassing picture of me or my immediate family in any form (at least that I know of), etc.

I'd like to have privacy, but even if I take every measure I can take, unless I get rid of my credit cards, bank accounts, house, etc, I'll never have it anyway, so...
"how bad the product is"

What makes facebook so much worse than email? The fact that its default sorting algorithm is based on how relevant it thinks stories are to your interests? Any spread of false information could happen basically as easily through gmail. I dont see people getting mad at gmail and outlook for allowing chain letters to keep existing.