skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why can't they just stop tracking those users?

It's defense in depth. Aside of this particularly shady and/or illegal practice, Facebook is[1] engaged in several other practices that could or should be questioned. Abandoning of any single of these practices would not break, nor even serious harm Facebook. However, abandoning several of them would put a dent in their finances.

As long as FB can play defense of the advanced beachhead of "user tracking", their other, less outrageous and/or less illegal practices are effectively taking cover behind it, and can go on unhindered.

Should the first layer be peeled off, a next one would come under attack just as this one is. This process, if left to progress, would eventually leave Facebook stripped to its core - which isn't much more beyond the original "hot or not" swapping of images and commenting on them.

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[1] almost certainly, given its vastness and multi-pronged approach to vacuuming up, and mixing & matching user data
I feel like the whole NPM/JS culture is around "there's a library for that" so I can see how the friction around having to get approval for npm packages would be an absolute velocity killer, but when you're as big as Amazon I really wouldn't want that particular JS flavour of "move fast and break things" powering the company...
Article 13 and How Tech Giants Game Politics
I almost said freedom and uncertainty but yeah it requires some planning and some common sense. Like finding a large enough area you won't land on a house and if the wind takes it you let it go. Mine often fed the trees. :shakes fist: Damn trees!
Interesting... Yeah, I didn't mean "manipulate", more to observe the behaviour that we would do naturally (e.g. things like praise, expressing anger, ignoring someone when we're dissatisfied with their behaviour, promotions, etc.) and shifting most of the "punishment"-type responses into "reward"-type responses.

Can that (i.e. non-manipulative rewarding behaviour) still backfire? Probably, although I'm then not sure what the solution is... to influence reality and your own well-being, you have act, and even the most fail-safe behaviour (like not spending time with a person anymore) is described by the above framework (i.e. it's a type of punishment), and furthermore it's not always possible (e.g. with children, or if you want a job and a relationship, most people seem to).
Little Caesars has an app! Never tried it myself but they have a little cage where you scan your phone (or whatever) and the door opens to get your pizza.

I usually just call ahead instead of having to sit around 10-15 minutes or ask what's ready if I don't want something specific.

Disclaimer: I eat Little Caesars probably way too much.
And then what happens when they add a field to the form and the table already has a million rows? What happens when they decide that the numeric field should have strings?

It would probably work using a forms table, fields table, submissions table, and values table.

I didn’t ask “would it have worked”, I asked “what would have bought us”.
Overusing list comprehensions and generator expressions in Python
>>"Armed with new powers since the introduction of stronger European Union data protection rules, Belgium’s privacy watchdog...."

Challenge all you want FB. EU is different, and you're a US company (cherry on top.) Game over.
There may be a fear element that also affects adults -- some time ago, I was at a work party at a bar in a major city. (Nice bar, ritzy area) Everybody else either came in groups by car or had a hotel within walking distance; mine's quite a way out. Shortly past midnight I'm tired of watching people act stupid and tell folks I'm walking back (alone). Most of them were surprised I was willing to do that!

But in my youth, also in a major city, I'd walk back from the movies or wherever with other kids around 1-2am all the time. You had to know which areas were lit and not stare strangers straight in the eye, but that's kinda normal, and certainly no one then felt walking was inherently dangerous. What world do we live in that a bunch of semi drunk adults can't handle the night for 2 miles?

No wonder their kids are spending their lives' quietest hours in front of a screen if that's the risk tolerance calibration of the parents.
Would you not be "associated with that article" regardless? You clicked the link, and that action is a tracked conversion regardless of destination.
The rap is pretty bad. It lists four questions: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry (aka baryogenesis, related to CP violation), Higgs boson, and hierarchy problem (why gravity is so weak; rap alludes extra dimension).

We found Higgs boson, which is great. We are no closer to answer other three questions, and frankly, there was no reason to expect LHC to help there, it was all wishful thinking. Sure, it was possible, LHC would do what has never been done, but not very probable.
> In my mind, it lends credence to the very toxic notion of "value of ideas" over "value of execution".

Ideas are required for execution; they don't have independent value (idea without execution delivers nothing), but neither does execution (you have tohave something to execute.)
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> This kind of behaviour is going to lead us to having two seperate internets.

No, EU kind of behavior does, just like China behavior.

> True, but does it need to be the biggets to be valuable.

I have lots of users in US, Australia, New Zealand, various Asian countries, and UK. Focusing on them allows me to skip translations.

> europeans can very often (region dependent) read/write english anyway.

As a European myself (Belgian), I know this very well. The Netherlands and Flanders are probably leading in this. But the bigger countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain prefer translated software. Just look at the dubbed movies they watch.

It's a lose situation anyway for me, there is no question about that.
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I feel that scientists have also long played around with an ethic of anti-journalism or anti-marketing as a pride, like it shows you're a true person of science. There aren't enough Richard Feynman's in the modern age.
Blockchain vs. Bitcoin
There's a whole subreddit called /r/StallmanWasRight so you're hardly alone.
Part of the reason is not bureaucratic but that clinical testing simply takes enormous amounts of labor, since you need to do it at a large scale.

Alternatively, you could say that the requirement to do that much clinical testing is an arbitrary bureaucratic decision and could be lowered - but there are political reasons (e.g. thalidomide) to err on the side of caution even if extra testing saves less lives than it costs lives because of the delays.
I totally agree with you! :) I must admit I've been playing this game from the start and I loved it, BUT (at least almost) the whole time I was very much aware of my addiction and the senslessness of the whole thing..... :/

So in a way, thank God it's going to be over soon - just watch out not to fall for the next “shiny new thing“, like you said already!!! ;)
I believe you're thinking of Smalltalk there - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste...
The same rules apply in the entire EU, so that'll be a sizeable chunk of their revenue.
VoltDB is a probably a better example of an in-memory database with ACID semantics. Redis usually won't be deployed in a way where it fsyncs after each write operation because it runs too slow. You need to do some tricks like batching fsyncs to get decent performance and I don't think Redis has support for this. However, SSD fsync performance seems very high. I remember benchmarking an EC2 i3 instance that was giving 20000 fsync/s but if redis is giving you like 80k writes/s then even fsync this fast is going to be a bottleneck. [https://redis.io/topics/benchmarks]

I think people who are deploying redis are willing to tolerate lower durability guarantees for the extra performance. A lot of the time redis is some kind of cache and there is a way of reconstructing the real data from more durable storage in the case of failure. Or people are willing to lose a second of data or whatever fsync interval people are using.
The ability to query, index etc. I believe is much more limited than regular Mongo, but you can correct me if I'm wrong. Also, it feels like a cludge.

RDBMS to me is to expensive in the churn and I've run into some deadly query scenarios.

As a non-storage expert I would just love one of those 2000's era 'object databases' to start with. We used to use them a lot in networking because they suited well to topology. I'm not sure they're much of a thing anymore however as I suggest JSON DB's are pretty close to it so there's no need for it.

But they fit developer's mentality really well.
Some is better than all, and most people I interact with are technical who either already switched, or are considering switching.
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A Catfish and Fintech Regulation
But it isn't a paycut - at best I am declining to look for a pay increase. And that is ok. I think plenty of people would do it - at a certain point we make more than enough to fund our interests and lifestyle.

I am always happy to make more, but I don't _need_ to, so my decision matrix on where to work extends beyond the question of dollars into consideration of people, mission, industry, possibility of making an individual impact, openess to remote work (I will not be going back to an office, at least while my kids are young) etc.
>How do you know they got the message?

Well, it is back in stock after all.
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Belief in aliens could be America’s next great religion
Yes.

It is.

It always will.
Color sorting of fruits and food grains is definitely a pre-machine learning problem. On the other hand, there are very problems which cannot be improved using machine learning. Incidentally, my father ran a startup building color sorting machines for coffee beans with analog electronics ~25 years ago.
Furthermore, you could pretty much forget about funding for socially/politically unpopular diseases - I can certainly imagine some voters rabidly requesting their representatives that HIV drugs shouldn't be funded at all because God's punishment should be allowed to take its course.
Let's say, in a perfect world, Facebook does change the behaviors in question. How can anyone trust them? Facebook has proven over and over that they are not s social network for users, they are a social network for profit. The two ideals do not mix and until Zuckerberg is out at the helm it's unlikely anything will change given Facebook's track record.

I was having a discussion about Zuckerberg the other day with a colleague. The crux of the conversation came down to something interesting which is that Mark, from what we could both glean from public insight on him, has never been all that normal or ordinary in his real life social prowess. Yet he is the kingpin of social networks today. The conversation ended on a simple observation: Mark burned people to get Facebook off the ground. And Mark will continue to burn anyone, including his users, to continue to move it forward.
For Python, structlog (https://www.structlog.org/en/stable/index.html) is a good tool for what you want.

But I think you can do better than structlog, with causal/trace-based logging. I built a Python library called Eliot to do so (https://eliot.readthedocs.io).

You can use tracing in a single application just like you can for full distributed systems. This means each log message is part of a causal chain of actions, and you can see what caused it.

Log messages can still be viewed as individual disconnected messages, but you can also get a tree view (see https://eliot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html for the code that resulted in these logs):

b1cb58cf-2c2f-45c0-92b2-838ac00b20cc
└── check_links/1 ⇒ started
├── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.206684
├── urls:
│ ├── 0: http://eliot.readthedocs.io
│ └── 1: http://nosuchurl
├── download/2/1 ⇒ started
│ ├── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.206933
│ ├── url: http://eliot.readthedocs.io
│ └── download/2/2 ⇒ succeeded
│ └── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.439203
├── download/3/1 ⇒ started
│ ├── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.439412
│ ├── url: http://nosuchurl
│ └── download/3/2 ⇒ failed
│ ├── errno: None
│ ├── exception: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError
│ ├── reason: HTTPConnectionPool(host='nosuchurl', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnec…
│ └── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.457133
└── check_links/4 ⇒ failed
├── exception: builtins.ValueError
├── reason: HTTPConnectionPool(host='nosuchurl', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnec…
└── timestamp: 2017-10-27 20:42:47.457332
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>these guys are blatantly fighting the law in order to continue being shady

As much as I hate Facebook, your initial assumption is wrong. The fact that the state deeds something illegal doesn't mean it's wrong, and vice versa. The state is a terrible arbiter of morality.
Typically, that's based on the email metadata such as the sender address, or mime types of the attachments as opposed to the actual content of the email.
I work with a few PhD physicists, one is a technical program manager in applied optics and ML; one is an individual contributor in optics and ML, and the other one is pretty straight stick ML. I bailed on physics after my bachelor's, ended up in medicine and now ... work in ML, with them. I don't think I ever heard anyone tell me, or any of my classmates "you should get a PhD in physics". It was something one did to do it. Because it's there. But even 20 years ago, the guidance was to look for jobs in finance or computers.
Is it really bad that most time is invested in simulations? Seems like a very potent low-hanging fruit (not to mention how many cool things could come out of it).
How so? In our case, meta data like the userid, browser agent, date entered, etc was always added to the object before it was stored and those fields were indexed. They are just name value pairs.
Cargo bikes like this one* have become quite popular in Denmark, there are loads of them in Copenhagen. There are also other models, but this one is probably the most prevalent.

*: https://velohouse.dk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Light-8.jpg
>As with younger children, parents are less likely now than in past decades to allow their teenage children to travel alone or hang out in groups without adults present.

This is byproduct of the "stranger danger", everything is trying to harm you/kill you mentality.

>Legal restrictions compound the issue, with curfew laws being increasingly common, as well as increased driving ages and graduated licenses.

Curfews are always the double-edged reasoning sword used: It's to prevent crime and/or keep kids safe. This is, more or less, the byproduct of adults acquiescing to the government's mandates, yeah?

>Finally, businesses that used to be popular hangouts for teenagers, such as shopping malls have become less welcoming, often having limits on when teenagers are allowed on the premises without a parent.

Well, this is only partially true. For one, you're not considering that malls, in the classical sense as we remember them, have been pretty much replaced by strip malls (unless you're in Europe). For two, this entirely negates swathes of teens who live "in the sticks", as it were, where the nearest town (much less, city) is 10km or more away.

I'd like to see a breakdown of these stats in an urban versus rural environment context and by social classes context.

I'd suspect that those whom are far more disadvantaged are quite more likely to meet-up in person than their more affluent counterparts. I'd also suspect that there's correlation between the urban and rural teenagers, as well, in terms of classes, which might lend directly back to whether or not they're more or less likely to meet-up in person (given the disadvantaged, who are more apt to live in rural areas, will probably have far few incidences of access to mobile phones).
> E.g., GTA V allows you to steal cars, play with gasoline and rob 711's; activities that if attempted IRL would either kill you or land you in prison.

This isn't true though, is it?

GTA V is simply cheaper for the sandbox space: but you're actually perfectly free to get some paintball guns, some cars, some gasoline, buy an old 7-11, fence it off, and play paintball GTA V.

That would just be more expensive and tiring, while less convenient.

(It sounds more fun to me, but YMMV -- and economically, you can probably rent the space to the police for training to break even.)
I am sorry to inform you my friend that work on this project began before Modi became the PM. Please do not insult the hard work of our scientists to fulfill your political fantasies.
> But that has nothing to do with entity size, and in fact is the opposite. If one state has advantageous laws then local companies there have an advantage over companies of any size that operate elsewhere.

Meanwhile, in the real world, tax havens are tiny jurisdictions for very good and well-understood reasons and the companies operating out of them are not in any meaningful sense "local", and the downward pressure on workers' rights is much stronger when multinationals can credibly threaten to relocate to one of several other jurisidictions with relevant manufacturing industries if new labour laws are passed locally rather than by a large trading bloc. And navigating 100 sets of copyright regulations rather than two is a challenge for a startup but something Amazon has ample resources to do where there's sufficient money in it to be worth bothering.

Local regulatory innovation gives us a lot more Google Bermudas and goods exported from Special Economic Zones designed specifically to privilege their patron corporations than local search engines and consumer electronics industries.
Of course. I didn't say otherwise: what I'm talking about is value. Ideas are often (usually?) assigned greater value than execution itself, which is absurd.

In actual fact, even beyond "inception", most execution requires ongoing iteration and innovation. No final product is solely the result of its inspiration.
But if the product you're selling in your store was made using charity? Or gifted you by the government? then high prices couldn't be justified by R&D costs.
Unless you are writing one-off programs that you never come back to -- which is certainly possible! -- it's possible that "future you" is the next programmer.
Computational Statistics is probably most accurate.
How to Choose Tech Stack for a Startup
In my experience, when there's something that offers additional guarantees for additional work, it's very rarely the right solution to completely forgo the guarantees. This goes for schemas, typing in languages, etc.

Maybe the additional work is too much for the benefit, but it's not that there's no benefit. Forgoing the guarantees usually leads to much more extra work. I think Python's "no types anywhere" was a reaction to Java's "types everywhere", but neither is optimal. Something with gradual typing or type inference has much more bang for its buck, so whenever I see "I use MongoDB because there's no schema to worry about", I always think that it's going to come back and bite someone in the ass.
If you liked the story of Ray Kroc, you'll like the story of Howard Schultz scaling Starbucks; the similarities are spooky.
sure, here's the source material https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10938.html

the outline link opens fine for me btw
I cycled through Africa, from Europe, with South Africa as destination ten years ago (took me 9 months). Fascinating continent.
How expensive do tolls have to be to fund roads?
Nothing, as they don't seem to be hiring physicists.
You can't take a knife into a football stadium here in the USA, either.
I don't think it would be that much effort for facebook to stop tracking Belgium or German users. They have excellent software engineers. If they followed the rule of "separation of concerns", only small percent of their codebase is responsible for tracking and they will need a chahge only in that part of the code.
>> they’re Japanese so they’re good at building infrastructure

This argument strays into racism, or a circular argument. Either the Japanese are uniquely genetically capable of building public goods cheaply, or their continued success is a result of how they have structured their society.

If it isn’t genetic (how could it be?), this is an argument for emulating the uniquely Japanese cultural aspects that led to the success.
After the first crash Boeing should have pulled that plane out of service, period. It shouldn't be up to pilots to try to find workarounds for rotten engineering.

The first crash can be chalked up to engineering errors, corner cutting and the desire not having to retrain and recertify pilots.

The second crash is outright criminal by Boeing, for not immediately pulling that plane out of circulation after the Lion Air disaster. Regardless of the cost (which will be much, much more expensive after crash 2).

Their cozy relationship with the FAA also didn't help and I hope the people responsible pay dearly for that.

Throwing the pilots under the bus is how they tried to handle that PR desaster. Doesn't seem to work well, though.
> Furthermore, dumped-over-the-wall projects like Android would be better referred to as "Shared Source" (with its association) - the Free branches are seemingly unable to actually keep up with the master!

That's because AOSP by itself is Android without all the integration work that's necessary to make a useful image for a specific device, and traditionally it's been a lot of work for each new version. Things are better in that respect since Android 8.0, which I think shows in frequency of both manufacturer updates and community builds.
Just say loudly as you enter the establishment: "I do not consent to being tracked, except as necessary to fulfill the service under GDPR"
...Which means you have lots of ground to cover before you reach parity with Fortran (phase 1), and then reach parity with CUDA Fortran (phase 2).
13 MEPs Pressed the Wrong Button On Crucial Copyright Vote
The anti Facebook wave has outlasted media hype cycles. It seems to be here to stay.

Good.

I think good things will come out of this.
TLDR: The light display on the Eiffel Tower is an artistic work, and is thus protected by copyright. We'll legally be able to photograph the Eiffel Tower with it's artistic light display in 1985+70 = 2055.
Sure, I completely understand where you're coming from because I share your concern, but if you truly believed a vaccine wasn't safe and that it had a significant chance of side effects, wouldn't you feel differently?

You seem to be making the assumption that researchers always get things right or that there isn't sometimes unexpected consequences.

I'm saying this as someone who is extremely happy my parents vaccinated me and wouldn't hesitate to vaccinate my own children, but that doesn't mean I can get on board with forcing parents to inject their children with something they feel could be dangerous. Just look at the state of the opioid epidemic, or the medication of conditions like depression. Medical professionals don't always know what's best for every individual, and arguably if you live in a rural area and home school your children, it's not so important to vaccinate your child.

I believe strongly that children are the responsibly of their parents, not the state. I really dislike how the state is becoming the defacto parental figure in most childrens lives.
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