skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physicists have gotten very good at the statistics of interacting particles. This paper asks, what if instead of a bunch of particles exchanging energy, one interprets it as the theory of many agents randonly exchanging money. Interesting things happen even in this over-simplified model.
> seems to ignore data

Not even close.
Excellent stuff. This is the future: universal surveillance with auto-detection of crime. It's going to be very nice. We can't fight dictatorships by disallowing this tech. We have to fight it elsewhere. This is a good thing.
Those are mirrored around the world and likely physically inside France. You don't want trans-Atlantic latency on your DNS lookups.
France is an internet censorship champion. When they blocked the french dailystormer without a trial, everybody was laughing.
"hate speech" and "protect the children" are false flags to spread censorship from big corporations & governments.
I find it particularly weird that Firefox has that great annoying popup for notifications, but reports suppressed pop-ups with an obvious but unobtrusive top bar. Why not use exactly the same construct for notifications?
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How do you measure the impact of rare but very expensive flaws without inventing phony metrics to pretend to fit the tasks you think need doing?

"Don't have a catastrophic data breach"

There isn't a middle ground where there is a linear correlation between a serious compound failure and fixing bugs or writing tests.

You could come up with a methodology for a "security score" and track that. However it is both a transparent workaround for having specific bugs / tasks in OKRs and it is likely that your invented metric will be bogus and will lead you to do irrational things.
I don't agree with that thinking. I can say the opposite. Why did someone enabled the notifications feature globally? Was it based on intuition? Then they are wrong, they are actually. They should collect data from all people before inserting any such "features".
Maybe I'm missing something...

I see the chat bubble in the bottom right. Pretty standard nowadays. Nothing uniquely bad about it here.

And that's all that's jumping at me? The rest is the normal website. What else is annoying?
FYI, in case it helps, there are many accounts online of people emailing jeff@amazon.com and getting a helpful response (though not necessarily from Jeff Bezos himself). Obviously, it's not guaranteed, but, if you've tried everything else, perhaps it's worth a shot.

In any case, good luck.
> Secondarily, I found that as a team lead, to the extent that OKRs were stressed, any non-OKR related work became highly dis-incentivized. ... I assume that the OKRs are there to guide which releases/epics/stories, etc... you do, but in our case, we had a pretty clearly defined product already prior to introduction of OKRs.

Good OKRs provide measurement and alignment. Measurement is handy -- the idea is to say 'I want to do O, and I believe X, Y and Z are sufficient to achieve it'. Since all these variables are measurable, you can see whether the problem is that you failed to achieve X, Y, and Z, or if your plan wasn't actually sufficient to achieve it.

Alignment is a bit more nebulous. For small teams, it may be unnecessary. But as orgs grow, there's room for mission creep and contradictory goals and efforts. Good OKRs are designed to be able to connect up the org chart. Staff should be able to explain how their contribution serves the mission, rather than their own insular fiefdom. And if they can't, it might indicate they're not doing what the rest of the org is planning around! If your engineers are focused on quality metrics like number of tests or SonarQube metrics but management doesn't see the platform as anything other than a proof of concept to find product-market fit with, that's a problem.

What your experience describes is a feature factory[1], and I don't think OKRs really change that. You can think of OKRs as management laying out how the backlog should be prioritized, and the fact that nobody in management was pushing for quality is a sign. Either they didn't know how to measure quality and impact, or they felt it wouldn't serve the overall mission. And these are all good things for everyone involved to see and recognize.

[1]: https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-f...
Sure... but now you're only saving a small percentage of the total electrification cost, and paying for increased cost, complexity, and maintenance of locomotives. It's not an obvious win.
Can't you also block it completely in Chrome and whitelist some websites? Settings -> Privacy.. -> Content Settings.. -> Notifications (Blocked)

I haven't seen any prompts since I changed that. Although I don't use this feature at all.
Hilarious game. I actually like this a lot.
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Read the article.

See where she says "we're default alive" in an email to her company?

That means they were profitable back in 2016. I assume now with extra capital that might not be the case, but that's the re-invest in the growth strategy, a la Amazon (which is smart).
You're right. It's all a bit silly.
"OKRs tend to require hours and maybe even days to determine what are the right goals and metrics."

The author implies that this is wasted time. It is not.

Figuring out why you do what you do and how you measure the success of that in a way that leads you to the right result IS hard but extremely valuable work. It forces you to deeply understand the problem you're solving and the challenges you face.
The article announces a press conference on April, 10th. There is no content whatsoever.
He's also failing to acknowledge that using telemetry in a constructive way does not preclude using that telemetry in a malicious way as well.
No they’re not. Availability. A locomotive that’s charging isn’t pulling a train. They’re like airliners, they don’t sit around idle for long periods. Too much capital tied up in them.
How is sending a patch level a vulnerability? It only makes things easier to scan, not to exploit.

(And you shouldn't trust that data anyway.)
The UK is already there.

My VPN was blocked recently and I had to go to my network provider with my ID to prove my age(?!) so I could access my VPN again. I was not impressed.
It's probably more drastic than that.

Simple math: if you have a savings rate of 20% right now, you would double your savings rate with a 20% bump. This would halve your time to retirement.

Taxes/differences in savings rate/etc change the math, but the principle is the same: an increase in salary is a disproportionate increase in disposable income.
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This is such a slippery slope. Anyone can claim that they care about ethics but they care about xyz thing more so ethics take a backseat.

All I can see is mental gymnastics. I mean, for all intents and purposes, Hitler could’ve used the same argument.

If you like meat just say so. There’s no need to do mental gymnastics in order to appeal to the senses of a stranger.
This is awesome. Twilight Struggle is one of my favourite games and the other implementations I have played are wrapped-up in too many unnecessary flourishes -- useless sound effects and video -- this looks clean and puts gameplay first. The focus is where it needs to be. I will definitely be using this.

The idea behind the blockchain is interesting too. Looking forward to hearing more discussion from people in the blockchain space about whether we can actually do this on POW and POS chains and whether the critique of bitcoin here is valid.
Was it John Carmack? Made a comment that he got into functional programming and got deeper and deeper into it and then realized there was nothing preventing him from using the same concepts in C++ but without the friction.
In a large company it is almost impossible to switch to a new language. You can try and convince to use some related language on some internal small project (say Scala in a Java shop). But the truth is the new language is not going to be a dramatic improvement in any area. The questions will be asked and there are no easy answers - who supports, maintains and updates it? Can we get commercial support, for how much and from who? Can we hire people? Will we able to hire in 5 years? In 10 years? Is it secure enough? How are the releases rolled out? Patches/fixes? Build processes? Code scanning? Maturity of libraries? More security questions. Can we scan the code in Fortify? Can we use AppDynamics on these apps? Do we understand its runtime well? You could probably get a few enthusiasts and build a team and get something started but the reality is it is very hard and going to take some time and the people don't tend to stick around for too long. And as a manger there is a chance you will find yourself in the middle of a large product with noone from the original team and no people excited enough to pick it up. This is why even rewrites are often a bad idea, rewrites in another language could be a business suicide for some. The truth is if we ever have a new ground-breaking programming paradigm we will not be asking the OP questions. I worked on a Scala project, it changed my thinking a bit and taught me some nice techniques, but no, I wasn't convinced enough to switch to it.
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Straw proposal: Get rid of the whole system of permission prompts completely and instead introduce a special input element for each permission.

Example: Instead of calling a JS API to show a prompt for push notifications, you'd embed an [input type="push-permission"] element in your page. This element would render as a special button that grants you the permission once the user clicks on it.

However, embedding it into a context where the user would actually want to click it, is your responsibility.

It would still be possible to spam the user with "self-made" overlay popups, but this is already possible today. The button would also need protection against clickjacking, which, I think, can be done by restricting how it can be styled or layered.
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It's insane that the two visible options are "Not now" and "Allow notifications" while 99 percent of the time I want never bother me again, in fact disable this feature entirely. I clicked yes exactly 3 times (my own Nextcloud instance, Protonmail and Whatsapp web), I'd be happy to do some more clicking to enable those at the "cost" of never being bugged again.
If you work in ICT, it's unavoidable.
> It seems like the only way to get YT to get their act together regarding measurably improving "who owns what."

The problem is fundamentally that this isn't really possible. What you have is one person claiming they have a right to use something and another claiming they don't.

To know who is right you need to know who created the work, who they licensed it to under what terms, whether the copyright has expired, etc. YouTube has none of that information, nor any reasonable way to obtain it. They're not a court.

But they do have a bunch of large media companies who like to sue them over anything they can, wanting them to solve this by magic. So their choice is to either screw over their users or defend them in court. One of those is much less expensive.

The alternative would be to fix the law to put the dispute between the user and the claimant into court to begin with and only come to the intermediary once the matter has been adjudicated. The media companies hate that, because it's slower and more expensive than immediately screwing over the users with no effective recourse, but it's what would be necessary for accurate/equitable determinations.
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I've thought one of the reasons procedural languages are popular is because of a lot of problems/tasks/specs are framed as procedural problems. And 95% of the time a procedural solution is 'fine'
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"You can still observe it even in FANG that is specifically poaching people from EEU for dirty work (e.g. building internal censorship tools led by Ukrainian/Romanian/non-US devs)."

Romania is not and never was part of the EEU aka Eurasian Economic Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union
> I have been under the impression that SUSE has kept changing ownership since Novel took over (then Attachmate, merger with Micro Focus, now sold), never settled, it's simply a a risk to many businesses running Linux with commercial support.

Absolutely not - this just proves that there's no commercial risk involved.
Red Hat was recently bought as well, which unlike the SUSE sale might actually have an impact on the company.
> The legislature has already ruled.

So? It's not like law is a "define it once and never adjust or iterate it" kind of deal. A law is not correct just because it has already been defined and applied. That would be the moral equivalent to circular reasoning, and by that logic we should still stone people for taking the Lord's name in vain and in general go eye for an eye on each other.
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I don't think it's specific to France.
UK has random torrent websites banned the same way.
Some regulation comes from EU, which has then been implemented by countries in EU: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive

Publishers used the existing laws to get this ban, as they already did in other countries. I wouldn't be surprised they've started some similar actions in other countries and will end up with similar results.

Honestly, almost every country has copyright laws, so allow this kind of lawsuit.
This will only result in people finding clickjacking methods to trick you into pressing. I would prefer that you can only trigger the request (using JS) on a top-level click-event, similar to how audio works on iOS (maybe Android too?).
There's a huge irony here in that major news outlets in Australia including Rupert Murdochs SkyNews all showed uncensored footage, some of it autoplaying and profited from doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/australian-med...
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What VPN was blocked?
That's why I said comparable. Soft feedback is not comparable.
Also because some browsers once you deny you can't re-request. but you can show as many html 'overlay prompts' as you want
Pokémon Showdown uses it for both – telling you your opponent moved, and message notifications when used as a chat app.

It doesn't ask for the permission until you start a game or send a private message, though. I think the original version of the spec required an interaction before the permission prompt when I implemented it – I'm surprised the restriction was removed.
FP programmers are above the nonFP in terms of skills. Mangers are non-functional programmers who understood they are shitty programmers and ran to do management instead. They never knew anything about FPs cause they didn't get there. Also mangers read marketing mumbo jumbo on the web - this is the cause why some languages are used in wrong industries etc. If you dont know the benefits or that something even exists - you wont use it. Most people on the planet dont know what FP can give them.
Well, it's quite clear that JS is seeing a transformation at higher speeds, but a the same time I feel like the backend offerinngs are now more diverse and they do, too, evolve.

Spring in java is pushing somewhat on functional programming and lambdas are now another way to work in java, which means you can achieve a some kind of real func programming.

We have some beautiful newcomers like Elixir which are trying to fill a gab, so yeah: I think the JS world does seem like it's going faster (and it sure does until it reaches a "mature" state), but at the same time we have great evolutions across all the stacks.

Obviously not everything changes, some things stay the same, that's because we're looking at some mature technology and not the bleeding edge, but if we look at the outliers, I think you could easily pick at least an innovator around each backend language.
Also to further your point into existential territory. I remember hearing Elizabeth Warren saying her plan was to break up BigTechCo's and thinking to myself about how ridiculous it is and how she's totally pointing her guns in the wrong direction. But after these events and some reflection; it's true. These companies are clearly only accountable to themselves leaving everyone else to go f* themselves. Consumers may win in the short term with the low prices that commerce conglomerate Amazon can offer, but I think the long run; retail death will only further widen income gaps and continue to tear our country's social fibers further apart.

I feel like I did everything I could to be on the correct side of this economic gamble; having worked for a few BigTechCo's; studying, training hard, teaching myself to code. But still, they don't even treat me right. It's like they're accountable to no one. They are more and moreso becoming public enemy #1 and I feel like that's a position for which they are totally deserving.
This is the paper that was previously referred to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19526679
I just don't see how government regulation will stop those same governments from doing the things we are talking about here. Its not companies like Google coming up with social credit programs.
Yes, that was appalling. I guess the directors were expecting the SWAT/GIGN to come, but hours passed and they had to sign documents, and the signature was deemed valid. I don’t even know if the directors were fed or could gonto the bathrooms during that hostage situation.

Torture at its best.
There are already cameras at every intersection in California that feed into the Department of Homeland Security.

https://www.cu-citizenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/...
Although according to Google Washington DC has 700,000 people and Baltimore 600,000. Probably a more realistic comparison would be Bristol and Southampton/Portsmouth where there is realistically 1 train an hour (technically 2, but the second one has a change and runs 8 minutes after the first one).

Comparing trains from London is not really fair because virtually every train in the south ends up in London eventually. Somewhat tragically, I once tried to take a train from Watford to visit Hatfield House, some 14 miles away. I think it took me 3 hours getting in and out of London :-)
This is an extremely irresponsible and selfish choice given the stakes, and probably most would prefer not sharing a planet with others with that mindset; thus the downvotes.
Which if you read that "specific piece of text data" is the outcome the murderer wanted. They responded exactly how he desired.
> It's insane that the two visible options are "Not now" and "Allow notifications"

I agree the “Never” option could be more visible for some prompts, like notification.

For other things, like location data, where temporal access actually makes sense, I think making the “Never”-option less susceptible to accidental/blind clicking is a good idea.
What? You want them to “collect data from all people” on how they use a feature right now ... before adding the feature? How would that work, exactly?

> they are actually.

Ok.
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I.e. the creator creates an asset. The asset is then used as collateral for a loan. The loan is simply a notation in a ledger. Money is created when the loan is spent. Money is destroyed when the loan is paid off.
> Software engineers need to take social responsibility for what they create.

They won't. 99% of people hate to take responsibilities and will never take any voluntarily without being well-paid for this or believing success is guaranteed. Expecting them to is ignoring a fact, may we like it or not. And they are not broken, it's not their job. Taking responsibilities is a job of politicians we elect yet they want power over everything.

In the EU, however, a reasonable part of politicians seems doing the job so we have GDPR and Google/Facebook/etc fined billions every now and then. But they could certainly do better so we wouldn't have the fascist copyright reform.