skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing will ever change until someone goes to jail, IMHO.
I have been trying mx linux the last two weeks or so. It is similar to Xubuntu, based on Debian Stable (which was a plus for me) with a polished XFCE desktop. So far I like it, especially some of the tools they have developed on top of Debian.
Well I had working KDE 1 on a machine with 16MiB, and you can setup a working X11 + FVWM with 4MiB of RAM. Obviously using older versions of Linux kernel and userland.

More ridiculous could be a full GUI OS on a machine witch less RAM, like an Amiga 1000/500 or a early Macs.
>what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?

When FB stops giving them a check.

At least that has been my experience watching programmers at other companies. Unless ethically bound by regulation and law, few people seem to have ethics.
Can linux-desktop stand more fragmentation?
I just tripped and a giant laser melted all the gold in Ft Knox which drained down a pipe into a storage container under my backyard.
It seems to be back up. Reporting from Central Europe.
More essential background on Bayesian optimization in AutoML's HyperTune

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/hyperparameter-tu...
Hey! Flying Tiger is actually from Denmark.
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anti-phone peripherals. Now that phones are the ubiquitous computers everyone has, we need a next tier down for persisting contact with less addiction!

watches, wireless earbuds.
Microsoft sells your browsing and installed apps data to companies
You're right. It sure was morally wrong of them to take a chance on a novel way to help people. I also hate the CEO for constantly shouting, "end all other redistributive efforts, we solved it ourselves!"
/s
Having spent some time learning counterpoint, it interesting to see how complex it is, and how completely baffled I was to see how Bach's works seemed to be effortless compared to my uninspired attempts.
You forgot Enlightenment. Back to later 90's/early 2000's was the most heavier thanks to the quantity of FXs(Without using GPUs or composition...) that it had.
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How can you tell the difference between your own personal hangups and absolute moral truths? That's what we're really debating here. Good luck solving that one in an afternoon...

Option one, check with your community. That's the approach the pro-censorship side is taking, they only propose censoring content that every acceptable silicon valley individual thinks is objectively harmful. They also support drowning witches. Wait, no, wrong culture, they got it wrong, we got it right this time we promise.

Option two, check with the conscience of the accused. Human beings regret most of their decisions, and people are their dumbest in the heat of the moment, and further people tend to dig in when pushed from the outside, so maybe the path to virtue can only be people improving themselves. However if you're convinced that your enemies are all a bunch of complete evil psychopaths then that won't work because clearly psychopaths don't do that.

Option three, optimize for something completely unrelated, and pretend to be motivated by whatever suits your goals - if morals are "in," then pretend to be moral. That's probably what's going to happen if we can't pick between 1 and 2.
Not everyone has the luxury to be able to discard their health insurance or work visa on a whim to suit your opinion of their employer.
Right--see the paper I linked to above for an example of that. Here's a summary article: https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-ther...

If you can't access it then shoot me an email at ron gejman at gmail dot com and I'll send you the pdf.
I think there's another factor to consider: people recognize that you can't put the cat back in the bag. The modern world just makes it far too easy to track people, find people, spy on people, etc. and you can try regulating that away but the technology doesn't stop existing and, in fact, just keeps getting better and cheaper. In other words: it is a lost cause.
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So Facebook has no QA or Facebook has QA no one listens to? I imagine the latter.
FB has said they'll be notifying the people whose contacts they "unintentionally" uploaded. How about notifying those contacts whose private details they illicitly obtained that their privacy has been compromised by Facebook - the innocents who signed up for FB and had their contact-list stolen (let's call it what it is) may or may not feel any moral obligation (more likely, don't even see the issue) to notify their friends/family/plumber whose details they "lost" to a thief.
I don't really see the problem with this. Ultimately it's the owners decision to do what they want with it.
From the article it sounds like there was a prompt for permission that got removed:

> Facebook told Gizmodo via email that in May 2016 it made a revision to the registration process, which originally asked the affected users for permission to upload contact lists. That change removed the opt-in prompt, though the company did not realize the underlying functionality was still operating in some cases.

It doesn't take a conspiracy to understand how a bug like that could happen.
What do you have on the travel check list? Everytime I travel I say to myself that I should make a list but always forget or put it off.
Disagree, on most of my systems I don't even have swap partition anymore. The few times I need it, I can just create a swap file on the fly and have any amount of swap memory.

Performance problems the author describes can be fixed 90% of the time by changing the dirty_background_ratio in the kernel as described here:

https://linuxmaster.cc/s/improve_performance_and_fix_unrespo...
What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Android will not run unsigned apps. This would result in F-Droid having exactly 3 apps. They're working on getting more reproducible builds but the build system is not exactly great for it.
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Sure, it does, it's not trivial though. Tedious to implement it yourself. You could use python libraries as "scikit-optimize" which has an implementation of parallel Bayesian optimization (based on Gaussian process), have a look at this: https://scikit-optimize.github.io/notebooks/bayesian-optimiz...
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Maybe ?
Good luck selling any of it.
The first part on if servers are box-shaped or not misses the point.

The future is not _a_ box, just like the present of running code in the cloud is not _a_ box, it's a provider running _multiple_ boxes for you on demand, and transparently updating and replacing them behind the scenes, with individual boxes lying below the threshold of things that you need to care about.

Same with serverless "Functions as a service". Of course there are still servers. But you don't have to worry about them any more.

Running games in data centers won't live or die depending on the question "is there a box or not?", rather it will depend on "is the latency acceptable?".
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While I haven't used DSLabs, I did suffer a similar bit of indecision recently trying to decide between Alloy[0] and TLA+[1]. In the end I don't think there is a correct answer, and there are probably more similarities than differences between any two specification languages. In my case I read both Software Abstractions and Specifying Systems (part 1 at least). Each took about a week; which is probably less time than I spent trying to decide between them.

I happen to agree with the argument made by proponents of both TLA+ and Alloy that model checking and specification is better accomplished when detached from an implementation language, but I think you would benefit most from simply starting with one of them (DSLabs or TLA+) and decide later if you'd like to learn the other.

[0]: http://alloytools.org/

[1]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
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> Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action.

Action such as "accidentally" asking for email passwords. It is quite remarkable how these accidents line up just so.

Grammar-checking programs should be flagging any use of "accident", "accidentally", "unintended" and "unintentionally" whenever they appear in the same sentence as "Facebook" and are not within quotes.
I was just saying it's not particularly brave to side with Zuckerberg and Gates on immigration or Buffett on tax reform. I wasn't commenting on the merits of the positions.
However, the well-off don’t like paying taxes to support the unemployed and the low-paid, so they use their electoral muscle to pressure governments to cut welfare bills. As welfare bills are cut, poverty rises among the unemployed and poorly paid. Governments may adopt draconian measures to force the unemployed into work, even at starvation wages, and to quash civil unrest.

The opposite has happened. In spite of low taxes, entitlement spending keeps rising, such as dissablty, healthcare, education, and housing. Who is paying for it? Bondholders. Other countries are unable to sell so much debt so cheaply and thus have to resort to austerity.
> Why do people in "tech" outsource their judgement on this topic to people who aren't even in the room, a mythical "average person", every single time the issue comes up?

The same reason they use the "average person" as a straw man in arguments about OS usability and whatnot: deep down they believe that they are better than other people because they know tech stuff. People can sense this too, it's one of the reasons tech people, as a group, aren't well liked.
“For the FB employees reading this: what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?”

There is a good chance that they didn’t know how their work would eventually be used. That’s the problem with big companies. Most people are far away from seeing the consequences of their work.
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They bill it for “pen testers and police” so I would guess it’s really for people who imagine themselves / want to be within that audience. Not to be overly cynical.

I suppose some pen testers, or actual CIA type folks might have some need of this type of device... but is that a large enough market?
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MCU Movies started as a simple one page website in 2017, an easy way to keep track of the movies in the MCU and keep an eye on the upcoming movies in the franchise.

I've continued to grow the site as the MCU continued to grow in popularity.
People aren’t entitled to commit cyber crimes, just because it’s a convenient way to pay the bills.

So far as I can tell, this was Facebook exceeding authorized access to a computer system — at scale. If you or I did this, we’d be looking at felony charges.
That feels like a good reason to go and cure malaria or something, and get out of the PR disaster snowball that Facebook is becoming
Author of the article here; this is a great point. This experiment initially stemmed from a nice analytical solution to the problem of computing the expected value (via generating functions as described in the post). Computing other moments, let alone the entire distribution, required some Monte Carlo simulation, as shown at the end of the first article (https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/identical-pac...) before I started the experiment.

And even this histogram assumes a distribution of total number of Skittles per pack (that varies) that I had to guess at beforehand. In hindsight, the final sample distribution suggests that I probably initially overestimated the true variance, and thus also overestimated the expected number of packs I would need to inspect. In other words, this experiment arguably took longer than "average."

So you're right-- this experiment could have extended into 700 packs, 800 packs... and still have been consistent with the assumed model, but I would have simply been in an unfortunate 90-th percentile possible universe where it took much longer than "average."
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spaCy's updated Pattern Matcher is pretty amazing and we use it extensively in our textual content analyses to help SEOs.
> I believe the Swiss voided a referendum result only the other week because the electorate didn't have enough or accurate information.

Wait, what? If the electorate had a vote, who are “the Swiss” who overturned it?
That's because Concorde and 747 were built with emphasis on a specific feature, in the former case speed and the latter capacity (the same reason an A380 also looks distinctive --- it's huge.)
Krita?... Mypaint isn't that good.

Edit. Or KCachegrind, okteta
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So, basically we're talking old-British-style sausages, which were mostly made of bread rusk and fat with a bit of pork thrown in for flavour...
> Today, if you can't interactively explore the data in the browser, it's considered subpar.

PDFs still remain a primary form of interchange for academic documentation. People who really want to crunch the data will want raw data files or some sort of common interchange format.

> but they're services with default UIs you're forced to use

I gave a bunch of examples where you're not forced to use them. Most of the popular web services are also available through apps on mobile.

> REST APIs are restricted both in terms of features and what ToS allows you

For public REST APIs, sure. For private use, it's still things like REST and whatnot that power desktop and mobile apps, bringing data from those internet-based services to local clients, completely bypassing the web.

> Can I have an alternative implementation of the Dropbox client?

You can, but that isn't the point. The point is that the Dropbox client, the executable program or mobile app, is how people tend to use Dropbox. If not that, people also connect to Dropbox through alternative third party apps.

Completely possibly, and I wager mostly the case, to bypass the web.

> All being increasingly replaced by Google Docs

Citation needed.

> You can't edit those outside the browser

You can, using Google's apps. They're not fantastic, but that's not the app's fault, that's Google's. Meanwhile, iWork and Office 365 let one easily edit documents with the desktop and mobile apps — and Office remains king of the hill in enterprise, whatever people may wish to believe.

> Exception, not the rule

But still highly relevant.

> I'm not saying everything is in the browser now. But it sure as hell looks like in 10 years it'll all be

It really doesn't. There's no pattern from which to base this. Apps are far more popular, especially thanks to the rise of smartphones; the web remains a convoluted mess of inconsistent looks and feels that increasingly assume a high-quality broadband connection even though there are still vast portions of the developed world that still don't have adequate internet to completely shift away from local apps; and plenty of enterprises still run on older versions of software and standards.

When one examines the whole picture, the web is far from being as ubiquitous as you imagine it to be or shall be — it's merely the next biggest alternative that happens to be huge.
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A useful feature imo would have been to allow non-tech user to input simple parameters to inject into SQL queries, such as 'national_code' or 'id'.

It would allow us to build reporting dashboards in no time for most use cases !
I did. I also asked the same Q when I helped catch Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech doing ad fraud: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/android-...

And when I busted a large ad fraud scheme of dozens of apps:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/how-a-ma...

In all cases Google basically said it takes action against specific apps found violating policy. It seems unwilling to take action against a developer as a whole and ban them. I would also add that I suspect the Play store is not equipped to enforce a ban. People can easily create a newco and get back into the store. This is definitely a much larger issue. So I think that among other things these stories show that you can be a clear bad actor and still do business in the Play store.
Even Facebook uses Bayesian Optimization for tuning the parameters of some of its online systems (like its internal ranking system): https://research.fb.com/efficient-tuning-of-online-systems-u...
Xubuntu has existed for at least 8 years not. Possibly much longer.
That depends on the nib and ink. I use a KaWeCo pocket fountain pen with an extra fine nib, and Montblanc ink, and it writes as well or better than the nicest Japanese ball pens I have tried.

I also like the pocket-pen format. I seldom lose a pen since it lives with my keys and wallet. That pen, plus a thin crosshatch notebook I keep in my back pocket means I can take notes much faster than on my smartphone. Then I photograph my notes. Google Lens is getting scary-good at recognizing my idiosyncratic writing.
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The headline should use “asked” instead of “asks”
If that makes you sad, don't look up, because all around us, even whole societies are being homogenized, ironically, by the ones who cry "moar diversity", while in reality creating nothing but muddled and polluted homogeneity. All the diverse cultures of Europe and America and all over the world really, are being erased and eradicated and stamped out through conformity at an ever increasing speed. It's a mass extinction event that people don't even have an understanding for, let alone the exponentially increased risk conformity introduces to a system that was fault tolerant and hedged against risk through localized, diverse homogeneity across the globe.

It is the black swan that no one sees, in spite of it being right before our eyes ... not even only because this comment is censored by the fools on the ship heading for the cliffs.
Why would anyone just give a site their password to their email account? And to Facebook on top of that?
This story seems a bit too well-calibrated to make a point for it to be completely true.

Presumably this company could be easily identified. Did this actually happen?
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Author of the article here-- right! This was the key "real world" motivation for this experiment as an attempt at a pedagogical tool; from the article:

> As an aside, I think the fact that this particular concrete application happens to be recreational, or even downright frivolous, is beside the point. For one thing, recreational mathematics is fun. But perhaps more importantly, there are useful, non-recreational, “real-world” applications of the same underlying mathematics. Cryptography is one such example application; this experiment is really just a birthday attack in slightly more complicated form.
Perhaps it's memory optimisation? Especially considering all the instantiations of generic types that Java wouldn't have.
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We are talking about Facebook here.
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company. This is gross negligence if they didn't spend time to QA this.
I'm pretty sure LinkedIn does or used to do the same.
Hmm, I'm in GDPR-Europe (EU) too though.
This could actually very useful for the company I'm working for.
An idea: Use Bitcoin’s PoW as the function for Worstsort.
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I think it's important to point out: There is large variation between different locations of Donki. As the article states, floor staff have a large say in what is sold at each location.

If you go to a location in a crowded tourist spot, then most of the customers are going to be tourists, and the selection of items will reflect that (more throw-away crap). At the Dotombori location in Osaka, for example, it felt like almost every customer there was speaking Chinese, and the staff also spoke Chinese.

Out in more rural areas, in my experience, people primarily shop there for discounted household items. The more bizarre items (and sex toys) seem limited to the urban locations. There is a degree of dichotomy between the two that is worth keeping in mind.
It's more complicated than that, but yes, the current state of medical research on humans is really far worse than it could be.

Note than many of the barriers are political. For example, we want to use clinical date from the EU, but the GDPR law makes working with the data extremely challenging. Previously, I worked with GA4GH which is trying to get consent forms changed to allow more aggregation of clinical data to be re-used outside of the original trial (metastudies on millions of patients) but it hasn't really gained a lot of adoption.

Other barriers are financial- there are a lot of incumbents who make a lot of money without making the system significantly better (I think of the major EHR companies here, especially Epic, but many drug makers and medical device makers fall in this category too).

Even within the reasonable constraints on ethics, the field could do tremendously better but there is no political will to make it so.
It depends on the region but it can be as high as 30% from what I've read
At some point, some government is going to have to step in and stop Facebook. Five years ago, I would not have believed that I would have supported government action. Now, I’m afraid for the future if there is no intervention.
The Phonon dependency probably comes via libknotify.
Age verification won't block porn. But it will spell the end of ethical porn
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Despite the best of intentions, fighting societal pressure is hard and has costs. We start advertising to children from birth as to the toys they want and it's difficult to make a 7-year-old understand that they are being manipulated into wanting a crappy landfill toy.
It makes you wonder about a lot of things, doesn't it? Fluoride in the water seems less of a good thing these days and more of a "big companies mining bauxite needed to get rid of this toxic mineral."

And how the auto industry did away with streetcars and other forms of mass transit. To. Sell. More. Cars.

And all the along the media is telling us they're our 4th Estate friend and at the same time selling out as fast as they possibly could!
Thing about low-end goods is, often times they're plenty good enough for what you want them for.
It’s a Bloomberg article which is fast becoming synonymous with inaccuracy or just being outright wrong. I usually skip them altogether but maybe it’s time we start flagging these articles. I’m of the opinion that most Bloomberg articles are a waste of time for HackerNews.
Just to be devil's advocate: Google is notorious for having separate siloed teams that do not share efficiencies or updates (eg. Hangouts and other messengers). A company like Google and Facebook don't have a good excuse, but we shouldn't be surprised.
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Aerospace is strategic industry where civilian and military procurements support each other, so this is much more than just business or competition.

Japan has made baby steps to have more sovereignty in it's foreign policy and it just makes sense that they are slowly increasing the relative independency of their strategic industries as well.