skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, I am quite aware of this fallacy. It is known as the inverse fallacy (~a -> ~p is the inverse of a -> p). Thanks for bringing this up.

Anyway, the reason that I am giving this cherry-picked argument is not to arrive at a conclusion on whether or not Facebook is being ethical or not. (Spoiler: I don't know, see my other comment.)

I wanted to highlight that ethics is a very subjective business. I understand why some people might consider these projects ethical. However, to some people, they are considered very much unethical. The New Zealand government says that because Facebook allows X, Y, and Z, therefore, Facebook is unethical. Now, you might disagree with this statement, but (no offense) what you think does not matter here, because this (X, Y, Z -> unethical) is now the standard that some entity is using to decide if something is unethical. By the same standard, if another project/product (that is not Facebook), allows X, Y, and Z, too, then this project/product is considered unethical by this entity. And it is very much the case (or at least possibly the case) that the projects listed here satisfy X, Y, and Z, too.
Beyond the considerations in this article, I've always found it fascinating that none of the big jets flying today is as fast in routine operation as the first American airliner, the 707. The difference is small, and the reason is partly to do with fuel economy, but it's a very good example of how technology doesn't always go forward in the expected direction.

A similar analogy in computerland is how many of us are doing most of our computing on devices much less powerful than the ones we had ten years ago, a function of switching to mobile devices and high-overhead virtualized computing.
gotcha. Thanks for the reply.
Good criticism of my post. Here's a more extensive list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city. So when the author writes "they rarely die" it seems to me like the author has a serious historical blind spot. But why do we need to only talk about "great cities?" Why aren't all the "ghost towns" of the wild west a good enough example?
> I use cmake (well I don't often, but when I do) to build my projects.

no, you don't

remove from your system make (ninja, msbuild, ...) and see how cmake builds your project
How does it feel to say that?
nah, I used it to untie the gordian knot oops... spoiler
I'm sure that matters to you, but I was talking about the form of the argument. It'd be equally stupid if it were something starting with If Republicans cared about free markets or low taxes...

It's a completely useless way to preface any statement, signalling useless text to follow.

See what I mean?
> If a plane takes less time to fly somewhere some of the time because of weather, timely takeoff from departure airport, landing slot availability at the arrival airport or whatever, I don't really care. If they arrive late however, that can be a huge problem, particularly for making connections.

This is exactly how developers need to think about how they communicate schedules to management. Missing an agreed upon date is usually a much bigger deal than pushing the agreed upon date out from the get go.
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Worst part is, the article is actually pretty good. The writer probably isn't happy that the editor chose such a clickbaity title
5G and the Future of Connectivity: 20 Industries the Tech Could Transform
>> He proposes a program of “heartland visas,” in which skilled immigrants could obtain work visas to the United States on the condition they live in one of the counties facing demographic decline — with troubled counties themselves deciding whether to participate.

So, we're suggesting "encouraging" immigrants out of the cities, because why...they're putting pressure on housing? They're already self-selecting a small-town life in plenty of places. Our local population, small town Kansas, is already 10-15% hard-working Honduran immigrants of questionable immigration standing. This is a truism across the state.
I don't think that the desktop JRE's autoupdater can automatically update to versions (of the old JDK 8) that now require a commercial license, but I'm not sure. I'll ask. But I understand and agree that communication/websites can and should be clearer/easier to find.

EDIT:

I asked about the JRE autoupdater, and got this answer:

Before update, it will offer to change the license to personal use (or to get a commercial one) or remove the software. It will default to remove. You can also choose not to upgrade and not to remove and keep using an out-of-date version. And if you accidentally remove, you can still get the old free versions from the Java archives.
You must have visited a relatively "blue" urban area. What you describe doesn't match the reality in most of the rest of the state. And while there are pockets of segregation and racism in Northern California by and large there are very few places as diverse as the Bay Area on Earth, much less the rest of America and particularly the south.
One rather insidious thing about H&R Block's online tax filing website is that, once the hapless user has chosen to have a real human "tax pro" review their tax return (for an additional fee), the user cannot un-choose it! The website does not offer you that choice.

Even worse, when the user calls the H&R Block help number, a computerized voice does offer the user the option to downgrade, but notes that it will have to delete all of the data the user entered!!!

Talk about sleazy.
There's surprisingly little detail about the course in the article, just one small paragraph. Especially considering that the course is part of the title.

I'd like to know more about what makes the course so effective. The article mentions sketching, but I'm sure there's more to it than that. After all, I doubt people need tutoring to realize that sketching helps with visualization.
Presumably, the people who fill out the survey are a very specific cross-section of the industry. Those who use a BSD are much less likely to answer a SO survey than a survey from a site with more BSD users, which makes it virtually impossible to get reasonable data.
Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
Don't feel sorry, we are fine. Still the most free people on earth.
A Successful Designer Developer Handoff
The minimal classical way to bootstrap your math knowledge is algebra (mostly linear) + analysis. This is the approach used by e.g. Harvard Math 55, which is a really famous course.

Harvard Math 55 employed Halmos + baby Rudin as main textbooks. Halmos has now been replaced by Axler, which is an excellent textbook (but the typographic changes in the last edition are very distracting).

Rudin is probably too synthetic and dry for a beginner. You could easily replace it by Hubbard & Hubbard (which was the sole main textbook in one Harvard Math 55 edition), or use an aid text like Gelbaum & Olmsted. You can also skip Axler if you go the Hubbard way.

A favorite open question of mine is what would a math bootcamp look like if you went up one level of abstraction and focus more on logic and abstract algebra.
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Until SF becomes more willing to regulate companies...

Alternatively, SF (and the rest of the world) could stop accepting lobbying as an acceptable practice, and your loop breaks. ;)

Lobbying is the problem. Asking for more regulations when there are still opportunities for the big companies to get what they want through lobbying will never solve the problem.
Anyone know if there’s an authoritative source for the course online somewhere?
That’s a theoretical aircraft, not an actual aircraft.

In practice they save fuel by flying slightly slower. But, their are many other considerations like weather that cause airlines to fly slightly outside of optimal altitudes and speeds.
Layoffs in 2019 – first quarter is alarming, you have an emergency fund?
You're right but the article is pretty interesting nonetheless.

With her colleague, Beverly J. Baartmans, she developed a spatial visualization course to help her students develop their spatial cognition skills. The 15-hour program—which uses blocks, sketching, software, and workbooks full of practice exercises—brought the women who took it even with the baseline for men on basic spatial cognition tests and helped boost retention rates for female engineering students by 20 to 30 percent. “If you start with 100 women, you’d expect 50 to graduate as engineers,” Sorby says. “If we give them this intervention, 80 will graduate from engineering.”
So various packagers making different choices about which updates get backported, and when, is absolutely not fragmentation?

I'm curious how each packager is going to decide what version numbers they use for backported builds.
I've lived in New York.

So have I.

Why would anyone want San Francisco to become like that?

It would be a significant improvement. NYC is far from perfect, but it has semi-affordable rents (outside of Manhattan), semi-functional transit, and much less excrement.
It seems like their is prototype code for what is in the paper [1] if you want to try it out, the warp board is ~$5k and I didn't look up how much the ubertooth ran.

Fortunately some wifi chips can be used as SDR to transmit IQ data which likely will be enough to run the experiment with some gnuradio modifications and further development, namely BCM43xx related devices installed Samsung Galaxy S2 & S4, Nexus 5,6 & 6p, Raspberry Pi 3, B3+ and Zero W, Huawei P9, & soon hopefully the TP-Link Talon AD7200 [2]

Having inexpensive SDR IQ capabilities through with the ability to transmit arbitrary signals (NEX_SDR_START_TRANSMISSION ioctl) in the wi-fi (ISM) bands such as the 2.4/5 ghz and recently the 60ghz radio bands significantly lowers the barrier of entry to people wanting to experiments like this. The 60ghz is with the Wi-Fi router Talon AD7200.

[1] https://github.com/gsmaxwell/DopplerFi

[2] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon
I'm sorry, I should have provided more context. Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city that includes the kinds of cities I'm thinking of. Many of these cities declined and depopulated due to climate change, economic factors, etc. Ie the same kinds of factors that are affecting SF and Detroit right now. Cities don't just die because their nation falls.
It's very worrying that people seem to forget how Google plays around with their platform and tinker with the results, because for a lot of people Google Search is HOW they navigate the internet. I'm most disturbed by how articles critical of Google completely banish.

An article from 2011, it's not particularly damaging anyway, just the kind of things that happen in tech:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-busts-itself-for-distri...

If you search the title of the article:

- DuckDuckGo: First result

- Bing: First result

- Yahoo: First result

-Dogpile: First result

- Yippy: First result

- Google: Does not show (I've gone through the 4 pages of results with no luck). To find it you need to use the "site:zdnet.com" option, and then it's the first result.
Homelessness and mental health issues leading to homelessness aren't really an issue the police can address alone. Housing is indeed a big part of the problem; other cities (New Orleans for example) have had excellent results relocating formerly homeless people into inexpensive apartments.
Yeah, the 20th and 23rd most populous cities in the US are "dead". The millions of people that live in Detroit and Baltimore, the tens of millions who rely on those cities for their livelihood, all the people who live there and the children being born there, all dead.

I feel like sometimes people don't read their own comments before they click "reply".
While I applaud your intentions and effort, you're basically hoping that we can start trusting companies to self-regulate if we ask them to do so nicely.

I suspect any change in spending habits you might see from companies would fall under what I mentioned:

> "Companies might choose one or two social issues to do good on for marketing purposes, while creating equal or greater harm in other areas."

So in this case you'd see companies saying, "Look how transparent we are about our lobbying! Look how we're only lobbying for carbon emissions regulation!" Meanwhile they've bought up a massive campus and put spikes on the sidewalks to prevent the homeless from sleeping there, and pay 75% of their workers minimum wage.

And that's even if the disclosure of their political spending gives an accurate impression. It's quite easy to publicly spend to support an anti-carbon-emissions bill that will make a councilman's career, in order to buy that councilman's vote against the housing bill that would hurt your business. In the disclosure, it looks like your political spending was anti-carbon-emissions, when in reality it was anti-homeless.

It's not plausible for average citizens to become educated and do enough research to catch companies doing this in every case: there are too many companies and it's too complex. It's the job of politicians to do that research and regulate accordingly, and we need to empower them to do that, and elect politicians who will use that power effectively.

The only way out of this that I can see is to not allow companies to spend on politics at all--voters have the sole right to determine our politics, and that right needs to be protected from corporate spending.
I think this issue / attitude is a major problem with the US. Both Detroit and Baltimore have over 600k people living there, a lot of whom don't have the option to just pack up and go. To claim the cities are dead is a disservice to the very real adults and children living there. If the nation dropped its war on drugs and instead waged a war on poverty those cities would be able to thrive in a generation or two.
And yet you still remember Camel cigarettes, despite the fact that their ads haven't been aired in half a century.

Most advertising isn't designed to force you to buy, that's not how people behave. Ads are about establishing name recognition first, then nudging you one small step at a time towards a purchase.
The reveal is roughly 20 paragraphs into the article in the captioning of an image, or even further into the article as text.

This style of writing really needs to die.
I have half a suspicion that it's the fact that it's burning through lots of fuel that is driving it's adoption. Processes in general seem to be driven by a kind of 'pressure' between low entropy and high entropy regions. This includes life itself. If life has a purpose it is to increase the flow across these low/high entropy regions. I don't think it's too outlandish to suppose some kind of hidden process that drives systems in general to optimise this flow. Bitcoin is just such a system, it's doing this transfer perfectly. Something tells me it's going to be extremely difficult to stamp out and I will be surprised if it does not continue to rise in value and energy consumption at an exponential rate, unless something systematic is done to disrupt it's progression. Buy bitcoin.
Thanks! -- I've not yet spent a lot of time making square images, but perhaps I'll give it a try someday. If IG were horizontal, I'd probably be working that way :); I primarily use the vertical 1.25:1 because it lets me fill the screen for the reader.
That situation does not normally come up, because I stop trusting that site. If a page that just displays documents requires javascript to do so, then clearly the developers were not worthy of my trust.

There are legitimate uses of javascript, but I'm not going to enable it just to look at a document.
In Britain, you actually can. This is a result of the "criminal lifestyle" provisions; once the government has proved that you've made money from an ongoing course of criminal activity you then need to specifically show that your assets were legally acquired, or they're subject to forfeiture.
> It is interesting that they haven't released weights, perhaps because they don't yet know or because it is bad news.

I'm guessing the bad news part.

My Half-Ton Silverado Crew Cab's (That's the 4-door smallest full-size pickup) curb weight is 4,942 lbs.
The heaviest Tesla Model S' (biggest battery I assume) curb weight is 4,941 lbs.

More weight spent on the cab and trailer is less weight spent on cargo, and money in the trucking industry is driven by how much you can carry (Speed is restricted, hours of driving are restricted, but amount cargo - other than weight - is not).
Except the comment was making a point that was irrelevant for the domain in consideration (typical aircraft speeds for commercial flight).

It's like if someone said, "going a little slower on the highway [typically ~60 mph+] saves on fuel" and someone pedantically ButAkshully'd that cars are more efficient at 40 mph than 30 mph because of engine performance.

Edit: Ironically, I'm the one normally promoting my "Scylla-Charybdis heuristic", that you should be able to identify when tweaking a parameter goes too far. But here I think the context of the tweak was clear enough that this caveat was a distraction from the core point.
Turbotax is a pioneer of dark patterns. Enter anything beyond a w2 and it wants $70.
It is not hard to find proprietary software developers who routinely query user data for debugging and product analytics. I’ll posit that almost none of them find this inherently unethical, though they probably understand that Stallman does.

There are of course some bright lines, like looking up people you personally know, which norms and security auditing heavily deter. But the general concept? Not at all. The HN consensus is not the industry consensus.

I mean look at the Hadoop community. What do you think is in those warehouses? The weather? No. Records of user interactions.
You can also allow unsigned apps on a case-by-case basis by right clicking the app and clicking "open"
Yes, emergency treatment is on the NHS but so what? That doesn't mean it's good! Emergency care is better in the US( even if it later bankrupts you). You can routinely wait for 6-12 hours in an emergency room in the UK (admittedly not for truly life-threatening situations). By most metrics, healthcare outcomes in the US are much better than in the NHS, quick google found this: https://qz.com/397419/the-british-seem-less-likely-to-get-ca...

"All private insurance in the UK gives you is that - a nicer environment and quicker access to treatment for non life-threatening conditions."

I don't think you would consider this a small thing if you were one of the 500k people waiting > 6 months for basic treatment on the nhs: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/11/numbers-going-pr...
Yea, that sucks. The edges of Queens and Brooklyn are hardly less expensive than most of Manhattan. They're really big boroughs though, and living in Flushing or Forest Hills for example is still quite affordable as is deeper Brooklyn.

But now that I think about it, it really is a matter of "when", not "if" the neighborhoods further from Manhattan get too expensive. I'll agree with you in like 5-10 years :[
I'm pretty bad at mental rotation/orthogonal projection. I honestly think I'd benefit greatly from that course.
Cryptocurrencies have all kinds of uses, people actually use them. From countries with hyperinflation, to ridiculous civil forfeiture, to PayPal freezing large amounts for no reason.

And it's my favorite method of payment, so easy.

So don't speak for everyone.
Silicon Valley Became “The Man” (2014)
For ages, it's for how long exactly? 10-50 years of more or less "success" history is nothing. It doesn't prove it's save and works in a long run.
Also consider scaling. 5.5 mln in Finland, 22 American states have more than that.
Using ones position to deal punishments for deviation from supposed social norms, neat. I bet that's not what stands in her contract
There are two drafts, ~1.5 year old.

"Social skills (not only) for aspies" and "Nice guys, friend zone and creepiness". Though starting is easy, finishing is hard.
Bitcoin.org is not likely to be an unbiased source when it comes to the negative aspects of Bitcoin.
Countries Punish Homosexuals to Death
TikTok – Why should marketers care about this new app?
Show HN: Class-logger – Boilerplate-free decorator-based class logging
> an explanation which specifically seeks to avert any critical

This is false. The default of critical rationalists is not to avert critical view. It is directly the opposite. There is nothing to support the claim that criticism of the 77 cent theory is specifically out to avert critical review.

I would claim that it is very likely that those who disagree with the science behind the 77 cent theory are more than willing in participate in a critical view of the development of Western society. A common theory among those is that society forces men to prioritize higher income over other life choices, leaving them with fewer choices compared to women. Relative low income has a disproportional negative effect for men on the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs scale compared to women. Thus men are more likely to take higher risk jobs if it rewards higher pay, have a higher risk profile in negotiations, sacrifice health in order to work more hours etc. It is just as much an critical view of the development of Western society as the theory of "patriarchal socialization". It just not the same view.
Dude java.com has been irrelevant for as long as Java Applets have been on the way out - approximately 15 years.

There are reasons not to use Java (such as it being legacy tech and the PITA that is using Spring and Maven when those are supposed to make life easier), but historic Java Applet vulnerabilities aren't one of them.
Yes. Accuweather has long lobbied to prevent the services the people pay for from providing them with information.

In 2017, the current administration named the lobbyist and co-owner of Accuweather, who's fought the NWS as the head of the NOAA, the parent organization of the NWS:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...

The fox watches the henhouse when it comes to your weather. Your taxes will pay for Accuweather's profit at your expense.
This one:

https://www.universalclass.com/i/course/reading-comprehensio...

From the article:

> Sorby’s program, for example, improved the spatial skills of male engineering students as well, boosting their scores on tests.
How is any of this new? I mean it's cool, but we already have most of those features with Firefox and extensions.
Sports, people! They keep saying men are better at visualizing stuff from various angles and hitting stuff with projectiles. I expected several paragraphs worth of all the outdoor, sporting activities most men are raised to do. Throwing, catching, or hitting balls by itself could cause some of this. Wrestling or fighting, too. Wandering is probably a factor, esp if involving jumps or climbing. Or just wandering through woods where everything is initially weird with much imagery and terrain misleading. Gradually build up a mental picture of what everything actually is. Bust your behind less, too. ;)
The number of people propsing a 3rd party take my data and advertise to me for the privlidge of paying money to the state need to rethink their position. No 3rd party sould even be useful, much less needed to satisfy your state and federal debts.
I don't get the demands to cleanliness.

The memcpy shadowing is really, really, really bad. If I see something like that in production code I would never touch it. Removing it could break code from both, people who relied on a check and those who didn't.

The 4 versions of openssh? Happens if you are in business for a longer time in my experience. We don't know on how many devices the software is run on.

Sure, it could probably be cleaner, but so could nearly every form of production code I saw in the real world. I would surprise me to see a different situation elsewhere.